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...time when you have weak majorities and no strong leaders." One crucial difference is that while leaders are under fire almost everywhere, relatively few people are calling-at least so far-for fundamental changes in the democratic system. Today, says Professor Heinrich Winkler of Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg, "the parliamentary system as such has not failed...
Rosenzweig started out as a Jew of his time. He was born in Cassel, Germany, to a comfortable, culturally assimilated family; only a great-uncle was a dedicated, religious Jew. Rosenzweig's real interests as a young man were intellectual: first medicine, then later, at the universities of Freiburg and Berlin, such studies as literature, classical languages, philosophy, history and political theory...
Coolidge, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Freiburg in 1892, not only sought out collections of Slavic, German, Latin American, and Asian works, but also paid for some of them out of his own pocket...
...scholars believe he was Egidius Steclin, a 15th century goldsmith who worked in the Duke of Burgundy's court. Others insist that he was Erwin von Stege, onetime mintmaster to the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III. Or, as one archivist suggests, was he really Endres Silbernagel, an obscure Freiburg painter who died of the plague...
...Herdar Freiburg. $19. When Troy fell 3,000 years ago, the warrior Odysseus, king of Ithaca, set sail for home. The direct route was only 550 miles, but Odysseus was b'own all over the Mediterranean, took te'n years to reach his native land. Homer first recorded the voyagers' adventures in his epic poem The Odyssey. Now Photographer Erich Lessing has trained his camera on the very scenes that may have met the voyagers' astonished eyes: the shores of Djerba, off the Tunisian Coast, where Odysseus-here given his Roman name of Ulysses-tarried among...