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DIED. Heinz Berggruen, 93, German Jewish art collector turned unofficial diplomat; outside Paris. The Berlin-born Berggruen, who specialized in the works of 20th century artists, such as Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and his good friend Pablo Picasso, fled Nazi Germany for the U.S. and later established an esteemed gallery in postwar Paris. In the mid-1990s he famously moved his formidable collection to Berlin. Hailed for the conciliatory gesture by a once exiled Jew, he helped reinvigorate Germany's collection of modern art, earlier dismissed as degenerate by Hitler...
Future Systems was founded in 1979 by Jan Kaplicky, a Czech émigré to Britain who fled Czechoslovakia 10 days after the Warsaw Pact invasion in 1968. "I didn't have more time to live under a dictatorship," he says. As it would turn out, he also didn't have much interest in working under other name architects. After stints with Richard Rogers and then Norman Foster, both vanguard figures of British high tech, he decided to break out on his own. In 1989, Amanda Levete came on board as partner. Today the firm employs 30 people. In recent years...
...that hopelessness. Sectarian lines have been drawn through mixed neighborhoods. Where Shi'ites are in the majority, Sunni families have been forced to leave for fear of death. Sunnis have responded with their own sectarian cleansing. A large portion of the mostly Sunni middle and upper classes has fled the country; Jordan and Syria together now have nearly 2 million Iraqi expatriates. Inter-sect marriages have become less and less common. Zahra's father has refused to give his younger daughter permission to follow in her sister's footsteps and marry a Shi'ite. "He is the same man," Zahra...
Perhaps the most uncomfortable moment in the book is Perret’s passage later on describing a debate between McGeorge Bundy—an aide to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson—and political scientist Hans Morgenthau—a Jew who fled Germany after Hitler came to power...
...with an estimated value of $128 billion, are spread over more than 600 sites on the Tibetan plateau, a remote and environmentally fragile area more than twice the size of Texas. The region is also politically sensitive. China invaded Tibet in 1950, and its leader, the Dalai Lama, later fled to exile in India. The Tibetan government in exile, which is based in the north Indian town of Dharamsala, has long accused Beijing of exploiting their homeland, a concern that has only been amplified by the new discoveries...