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...Edmund Burke once said, “all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Tonight I will be protesting this event at 7 p.m. in Science Center A. I hope you join...
...people aren't buying the muddled result. Ruling parties aren't riding high - but they don't have opponents vivid or tough enough to take them down. Schröder may be the most vulnerable of all; his handling of the economy torpedoed his popularity, yet CSU head Edmund Stoiber couldn't beat him in last year's election. Now Schröder is even less popular - though his latest reform package, a cut in benefits designed to force the long-term unemployed to accept jobs, was narrowly adopted last week. The next election isn't until...
Ronald Reagan remains the unsolved mystery of modern American politics, breaking rules, defying odds and confounding even people who knew him well and watched him up close. His biographer Edmund Morris described him as "an apparent airhead," not just unknown but unknowable, a man who slept through meetings, read from scripts, mistook anecdotes for analysis and prepared for a summit by watching The Sound of Music. His heirs and allies defend him as the redeeming visionary of the latter 20th century, a man who invited people to underestimate him because it served his purposes. As for the private...
...Kristallnacht - the infamous pogrom against Jews launched by Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Göbbels - and it's the day construction is set to begin on the city's first major synagogue since World War II. Hundreds of politicians and dignitaries, including German President Johannes Rau, Bavarian State Premier Edmund Stoiber and Paul Spiegel, head of Germany's Jewish community, will attend the groundbreaking ceremony. But if a ring of alleged neo-Nazis had its way, police say, Nov. 9 would also have been the day a bomb containing 1.7 kilos of TNT went off near the synagogue site. Since...
...space provided, draw a picture of Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher arguing over Nabokov's translations of Pushkin compared with Edmund Wilson's during a break in deliberations at the International Conference...