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...Waffen combat units were formed in the late 1930s. It was members of the Totenkopf ("Death Head") SS who served as guards and executioners at the concentration camps, wearing black caps and skull-and-crossbone insignia on their collars. The double S was rendered in a lightning-bolt design that, along with the swastika, became an emblem of the Nazi regime...
Often, however, Seagrave's thesis tyrannizes his judgment, and his narrative tapestry reveals too insistent a design. Chiang's anti-Communist policy was in large part an act of self-defense. Had Mao's forces won in the '30s, Chiang and his colleagues would surely have been executed. Estimates of those killed in the famine vary widely, Seagrave acknowledges, but Chiang's pro-Communist antagonist Edgar Snow places it at a million, so a million it is. Seagrave's enemies' enemies are invariably his friends: thus Ching-ling, the family's black sheep, is portrayed as a "transcendent beauty...
...Japanese manufacturers, including Nissan. And Renault, for one, is a prime example of an automaker that's reinvented itself. It took years for the formerly state- owned French company to shake off a reputation for shoddy quality it acquired in the 1980s. But thanks to a series of attractively designed cars, and aggressive cost cutting to ensure they could be sold at both profitable and reasonable prices, the firm has rebounded. Renault earlier this year reported record profits, boosted in part by the runaway success of its Megane car. Last year, it introduced a new low-cost auto...
...flat, wide design gives you ample thumb room; it's easy to set brightness and zoom. The images were decent, but colors sometimes looked flat. The LG stores up to 200 pictures and about 20 min. of video...
...multi-year project, announced last Wednesday, is a collaboration between the Silk Road Project, Inc., the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and Harvard College, and draws together influences from territories along the historical silk trading road, which stretched from China to the Mediterranean. Ma will be the artistic director of the program, and will have his first residency at Harvard from Sept...