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...hope that the skilled professionals who handle the day-to-day business of protecting this country are allowed to display their skill just as those in Germany did recently, rather than having all the talent and effort they devote to this cause squandered in the name of politics...
...Even so, the project remains sensitive in Germany. When thousands of brown-shirted extras marched underneath giant swastikas at a parade ground in a western corner of Berlin, for example, a passerby filed an official complaint with the city for illegal display of Nazi propaganda. "What are the tourists going to think, not to speak of old people that were affected by the Nazi regime themselves?," Christian Bredlow, who is bringing the suit, told the Berlin daily Tageszeitung. Similar charges have been filed against the owners of other Berlin sites, including the Nazi-era Ministry of Finance, which are being...
However, the play of the usually up-tempo Crimson squad was clearly withering in the heat. The quickness that Harvard can usually rely on to beat defensemen down the wing and to win balls in the middle was seldom on display against the Black Bears...
...Many Burmese are doing just that. The short-lived rally in Rangoon was one of 20 or so protests that in recent weeks have erupted across Burma - a rare display of civil disobedience by a people who have been ruled for 45 years by one of the world's most reclusive, and repressive, military regimes. The last time there were mass countrywide demonstrations, in 1988, the military cracked down hard, killing thousands of protesters and dashing hopes of democratic reform. Now daily life in this nation of 53 million has become so desperate that an impoverished populace may feel...
...Muslim world, and sparked renewed debate about the theological and philosophical roots of the so-called "clash of civilizations" percolating across the globe. Flinging the mild-mannered Benedict into the fire of breaking-news notoriety - with both his keen intelligence and striking lack of political acumen on fine display - the controversial lecture is the singular watershed of his papacy. Indeed, Vatican watchers now commonly divide Benedict's reign into "before and after" Regensberg...