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...most significantly perhaps, the elder Schwarzenegger was a Nazi. Wendy Leigh, a British free-lancer who published an unauthorized biography of Schwarzenegger in 1990, discovered that Arnold's father had joined the party on July 4, 1938, just months after the Anschluss, Germany's annexation of Austria. Regardless of whether that was a step Arnold's father took gladly, in America we don't visit the sins of the father onto the children. All the same, Arnold did not always take care to avoid those associations himself. One of the guests he invited to his 1986 wedding to Shriver...
...people loved the Americans as a people, even before the war, but now they do not," says an elder who declines to give his name. "The resistance does exist, but it's not to protect Saddam or avenge Uday and Qusay. The resistance belongs to the community." A community that's hard to fit on just one deck of cards. --Reported by Hassan Fattah and Vivienne Walt/Baghdad, Massimo Calabresi/Washington and Michael Ware/Tarmiyah
...deaths of Uday and Qusay, will be temporary. But TIME spoke to members of a Fedayeen Saddam cell who said their support for the Husseins is not what motivates their attacks on the Americans. "We do it because they degrade us, they occupy our area," said a tribal elder sitting at the head of the gathering. The cell members said they operate autonomously, selecting their targets and timings without orders from any kind of hierarchy. The morning after the Mosul siege, when a makeshift explosive device detonated under a military convoy as it passed through the town of Ramadi, west...
...life and work, Franklin demonstrated a humane approach to individuals and ideas. Behind the facade of the powerful and worldly elder statesman lurked a streak of little-boy mischievousness, which accounted in part for Franklin's appeal to the ladies. CAROLINE HAKIM Palm Springs, Calif...
Sources: AP; Newsday; AP; National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; National Center on Elder Abuse...