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...Germans, especially, the memory of war poses an existential problem. The enormity of German war crimes was so great, and the extent to which the postwar generation assumed a collective guilt for the Nazis' horrors so remarkable, that it has not been easy for Germans (much less others) to face another side of the truth of war: Germans suffered too. They didn't just lose tens of thousands of young men in battles far from home. British and American air forces bombed their cities into landscapes from hell, while in the winter of 1944-45--when the Red Army swept...
...everywhere. In Africa, for example, if we got into a war between Socialists and Gaullists, we wouldn't know where to go. A certain number of French politicians were capable of destabilizing Elf. We had to shut them up or make sure they were with us." To what extent Elf broke French law with its slush fund is unclear. At the time, party-funding rules were loose and paying bribes to foreign officials was legal; indeed, companies could deduct them from their taxes. (That has since changed.) The prosecutors are focusing on allegations that, in the process of handing...
...films try to make some sense of the chaos that I create and live in,” Toback says. “The whole Wittgensteinian, Kierkegaardian, Heideggarian essence of my consciousness is explored to the extent that one can explore it in a movie...
...inclination for everyone to toe their respective ideological lines, rather than confront difficult questions. This campus missed an enormous chance to ask the questions sparked by Lo’s flag: Whose opinions are we willing to entertain seriously even if we disagree with them? To what extent do we temper our unequivocal support of free speech when faced with ideas we find distasteful...
...Well over one hundred institutions,” he writes, “including almost all of the major public universities, do engage in high-pressure intercollegiate athletics to an extent that seriously conflicts with academic principles...