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...Germany, Hitler is thought of as evil incarnate, a madman, an easy target for parody (indeed, Brooks borrows heavily from Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator and Ernst Lubitsch's 1942 To Be or Not to Be). But whenever anyone in Germany tries to poke fun at him, the same discussion erupts about taboos and having respect for the weight of history and national guilt...
...Academically, he received a broad education, participating in one of Harvard’s first poetry workshops and immersing himself in the work of Surrealist painters Max Ernst and Joan Miró in a class on 20th century art. Ashbery did write a thesis, on W.H. Auden, though he has always considered himself more of a poet than a critic. “I think of the two as opposites,” he says. “Writing poetry is striking out and finding something you don’t know yet, whereas criticism is dealing with something...
...Furbees have company. Sales in the once recession-proof vacation-time-share sector have plummeted, and inventory has surged to new highs over the past six months. "It is a buying opportunity," says Mark Lunt, principal of real estate and hospitality transaction advisory services at Ernst & Young. "People are demanding lower prices, and sales folks are slashing prices [by] double digits and offering incentives...
...been here before. Graham Farquhar, a partner in Ernst & Young's employment tax division, says the mad rush "is reminiscent of what we saw during the downturn in 2001," with employees suddenly acting on perks they may have forgotten were on offer. Katarina, who lost her marketing job with a cosmetics firm in Frankfurt, joined a gym before her last day to secure a corporate discount, which saves her $40 a month. "I've been unemployed for the past month but my gym membership is still the rate of a working person's," she says...
...Melissa M. Lo, also a first-year graduate student in the course, said that evolution did not achieve its status as universal knowledge until biologists years later expounded the idea. Her role in the exhibition involved showcasing the work and writings of one such chief scientist, Harvard Professor Ernst W. Mayr—otherwise known as the “Darwin of the 20th century.” The exhibit is to not only to “show just that Darwin was this bright guy, but how he has networked into so many cultural aspects and disciplines...