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...sight of a German Pope crossing into the death camp beneath the infamously false Nazi sign, "Arbeit Macht Frei? (Work Will Set You Free), is arguably the most striking image of Benedict?s 14-month-old papacy. Walking alone with his hands clasped in front of him, an utterly grim expression fixed across his face, the 79-year-old pontiff entered as both the leader of the billion-strong Roman Catholic Church, and a World War II-generation German citizen. ?To speak in this place of horror, in this place where unprecedented mass crimes were committed against...
...between bites of his “Tony Blair” burger, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) senior correspondent Matt Frei discussed British-American relations with six Harvard undergraduates yesterday...
...Frei interviewed students as the BBC crew furtively maneuvered around perturbed waiters at Bartley’s Burger House to cast a spotlight on his subjects. Will Walden, chief news producer of the BBC, organized the event with the help of the Center for European Studies...
...deigned to allow civilians once again to govern. When his plane lands in Santiago - a capital now ruled, once again, by the very Socialist party Pinochet overthrew in his 1973 coup - he won't be greeted as a national hero. Neither president-elect Ricardo Lagos nor outgoing President Eduardo Frei will be at the airport, and the general is expected to be welcomed by a small delegation of military officers, a marching band, a few thousand of his most fervent supporters and a packed media gallery...
Britain chose to ignore Chile's democratically elected President Eduardo Frei's demands that Pinochet be returned to Chile and his fate be decided by the Chileans. After all, the alleged crimes did not take place in England or Spain but in Chile. Thus British liberals are telling a presumably sovereign nation that territoriality doesn't count, that Chile cannot be trusted with its own political affairs. Colonialism is back. EDWARD KAUSEL Cambridge, Mass...