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...There's still a slim possibility Alitalia can be saved. Air France-KLM or German carrier Lufthansa might make a new offer, or the Italian consortium could reconsider if the labor syndicates show more leeway. But the likelier scenario is that Italy's national carrier goes under for good...
...Sasol used a process also used by Nazi Germany [Sept. 15]. The founder of Sasol was my brother, the late Etienne Rousseau, a chemical engineer. In 1990 he described to me how he had used a combination of the Fischer-Tropsch and the complementary American Kellogg process, not the German process only. Moreover it is common knowledge that after World War II the U.S. used captured German scientists to work on synthetic fuels. This was a U.S. Bureau of Mining project instigated by the Synthetic Liquid Fuels Act. Not many people would call the U.S. a Nazi country. Leon Rousseau...
...German tourist Viola Habakuk was unimpressed with the store, considering she said she was looking for the Law School campus and came across the one-room shop instead...
...that project that image of Islam. To be fair the image presented by the enemies of Islam is much the same as that presented by the terrorists. As I see it, the terrorist organizations represent a deformation of Islam in the same way as Nazism is a deformation of German patriotism and Bolshevism is a deformation of the aspiration for social betterment. We have observed such things in our lifetime now, and as with the Germans and the Russians, the Muslims themselves are the first and worst victims of this...
...contrast, I have been brought into contact with any number of historians, in America and abroad, who have twisted the facts of history to suit their own particular political or social views or prejudices. Mainstream German history textbooks today routinely ignore or treat merely as footnotes such events as Kristallnacht, the Holocaust and German guilt, while the more extreme deny their existence entirely. At various points in the past century, entirely reputable historians came down on all sides of the Vietnam War, the Armenian massacres by Turks, the humanity of Soviet communism and, today, American policies across the Middle East...