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...American German "reconciliation." Though our country is a friend and ally of West Germany--the spiritual heir to those Germans who resisted Nazism-Mr. Reagan has chosen to honor instead the graves of Germans who perpetrated the evil of Nazism Certainly there are more praiseworthy people- Germans who fought for freedom and against hatred to whom we might have paid homage...
President Reagan's visit is seen by many people--including large portions of the West German population--as an act of forgiveness to Germans who fought under Hitler. A member of the West German Parliament has said that "God's mercy also extends to the buried SS soldiers." God's mercy, perhaps, but not America's tribute Only God and the victims can give the Nazi butchers their ultimate forgiveness. The President offers German consciences a flawed pardon at the expense of historical understandings; this is an unacceptable tradeoff. By his words and planned visit. President Reagan has blurred...
...also harder, because college officials weren't used to student anger, and they fought back with police truncheons and disciplinary action. Now demonstrations have been accepted; they're almost a part of the system. When the students block his office doorway, Bok works at the Kennedy School until they leave. It is all very decorous--those kids will have their protest, pay them no mind. Kind of ruins the point of the protest, doesn't it? Unless of course, you care more about how the protest feels than what it does...
...working at his father's restaurant, picking up a preppy wife along the way, and then plunges into the rat race that is the tenure track. As a classicist who taught at Harvard and Princeton before winding up at Yale, Segal knows the intimate details of the hard-fought battles that surround lifetime appointments including the much-desired favorable reviews in the Confy (sic) Guide, which Ted purchases at 6 a.m. so nobody will...
Living in Hollywood for much of his life, Reagan might not have known that 12 million people--5.8 million of them Jewish--were, deliberately and systematically killed in the same war that John Wayne and Henry Fonda fought on the silver screen. That was over one-third of the Jewish population during World...