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...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 through Eastern Europe--millions of refugees were forced to flee west as the doomed Wehrmacht fought with an almost demented bravery to defend them. It is as an act of recovering German suffering that Crabwalk, the new novel by Gunter Grass, is worth reading. "We have a right to mourn our dead," Grass said to me when I visited...
...image of hands-off supervision would be easier to sustain if not for the emergence of an exile so favored by the Pentagon. Chalabi has been preparing for this moment almost from the day his wealthy, politically prominent family was forced to flee after Iraq's monarchy fell in 1958. An elegant scholar with a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago, he helped found the umbrella opposition I.N.C. in 1992, and his political savvy earned him pre-eminence in anti-Saddam exile circles. To his passionate supporters, who include Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld...
...goal is to secure suspected weapons sites and then methodically inspect them--rather than blow them up, which would risk spreading deadly toxins in the air. Still, the allies need to move fast. Some U.S. and British officials fear that if chaos persists, top Iraqi scientists may attempt to flee, perhaps in the hope of selling their expertise--or even the weapons--to terrorist groups...
...enough to make you want to flee the city?and you still can, provided you pass the airport's new mandatory health checks and you're not booked on the nearly one-third of flights to or from Hong Kong that have been canceled. But take heart, Hong Kongers, you have the steely will to persevere in a city the World Health Organization (WHO) has deemed unsafe for nonessential visits. Even the Stones, grizzled human petri dishes that they are, were frightened away by the very environment you call home. At the moment, despite the Health Department's explanation...
Lynch said that Pring-Wilson’s ability to speak multiple languages and a history of international travel could allow him to flee...