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...political figures have been flying off the shelves in Japan and Italy. Friends of mine (not all of them political junkies) from Australia, India, Ireland, Kenya, South Africa and Britain have all sent me e-mails in recent weeks about the primaries and how exciting they are. My father has been interested in American politics since 1960 and says he has never seen this level of interest so early in the race. "There truly has been nothing like the Democratic battle we are now experiencing," he e-mailed me recently. "Here [in Australia] wherever we go, people want to talk...
...Jewish family of financiers and art collectors. An ex-Gestapo officer and biographer, Hansjürgen Koehler, has claimed that Hitler's grandmother once worked as a maid for the Vienna branch of the family, giving rise to rumors that she may have sired a bastard son, Hitler's father, with a Rothschild. Whatever the real reason for his enmity, Hitler, a failed art student, ordered the plunder of Rothschild collections in both Paris and Vienna to help stock his Führermuseum...
...etat set in motion a series of events that brought many families, like those of Lage, Velo, and Balmori, to the United States, albeit through much hardship. After Lage’s grandfather’s general store was seized by armed guards, Lage’s father boarded one of the “freedom flights” inaugurated by President Lyndon B. Johnson, taking him to the United States. When Lage’s grandfather tried to apply for a visa out of Cuba, he was thrown into a work camp for six years before finally receiving clearance...
...they formerly identified with. Lam says that because she wasn’t “raised Chinese,” she doesn’t feel particularly obliged to join an ethnic student group or to make friends with people of similar cultural backgrounds. She remembers telling her father that she had a girlfriend. Her father, in “his most stereotypically Asian moment ever,” told her he was concerned not about her homosexuality, but about rather the fact that a relationship might prevent her from finishing all of her schoolwork.Still, the fact that...
...happy moments together, in the end, will get less attention than the breakup. Every candidate for a party's third straight term in the White House needs a moment to define himself away from his two-term predecessor. Bush's father waited until the G.O.P. convention to break with Reagan, rolling out his controversial "kinder, gentler" slogan. Gore simply kept Clinton at arm's length from early in his quest, hoping he'd take the hint. Both of those aspiring successors were dealing with incumbents whose numbers were still relatively healthy - Bush's, by contrast, are stuck...