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...near Hanover in northwestern Germany, Bergen-Belsen was built to contain 10,000 prisoners and was run, like all the camps, by the SS. In 1944 the commandant, SS Major Josef Kramer, later known as the Beast of Belsen, began accepting inmates from other camps who were too frail to continue their slave labor. The population of 15,000 Jews was swollen by thousands of new prisoners, most of them starved and diseased after weeks of forced marches. By early 1945 Bergen-Belsen held 41,000 inmates. Rations were less than meager. Inmates were beaten and abused. There was virtually...
...people when the line would be closed, though warnings of a 15-hour wait did not seem to discourage people. Some brought a book and read the whole thing. When night fell, the basilica glimmered, and still they came, intent on seeing him one last time. No longer the frail, folded figure in the window, he was a prince in red slippers, tall and straight and strong again. His face showed signs of peace and pain; the peace that has come to him, the pain he leaves behind. As many as 18,000 people passed by every hour, moving almost...
Wearing a dark jacket over blue pajama bottoms, and supported by bodyguards, the 46-year-old moonwalker did a slow, frail moon swoon past the gaggle of reporters. The moment had echoes of the famous James Brown routine, in which the soul man, feigning exhaustion, would be shepherded toward the wings by bandmates, only to break free and sing one more chorus of Please, Please, Please. Jackson's version was pretty persuasive ... until he heard the encouraging cries of his admirers. Instantly he executed a neck swivel in their direction. His body might have been in agony...
...followed. Which is why the critics of the Bush doctrine take refuge in a second Bush-free explanation. They locate the reason for this astonishing Arab spring, if not in people power from below, then in rot from above. These superannuated dictatorships, we are now told, were fossilized and frail, already wobbly and ready to fall, just waiting to be undone by the slightest challenge...
...church is a multinational, but a multinational that is guided by the Holy Spirit." JULIAN CARDINAL HERRANZ, on why Pope John Paul II is unlikely to retire due to his frail health, as the executive of a company might...