Word: germane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gerhard Schroeder, German Chancellor White Knight, Thinker, Crowd-Pleaser, Difference-Splitter
...summer before my first year, my mailbox was predictably flooded with paper. Between curriculum guides and rooming forms and unsolicited letters from the German department, it looked like Harvard was a primary culprit for deforestation. Along with all that paper came an abundance of something I didn't expect: advice. Everyone from Crimson Key to the Harvard Independent had wisdom to impart: Compete in intramurals. Be open-minded. Make new friends. Take German...
...ground in Kosovo, the early signs are already making the push-button war look like the easy part. Across the province, KLA troops ? in full camouflage and still fully armed despite agreements to the contrary ? are parading in full view of NATO troops and making everybody nervous. In the German-held sector, returning Kosovar Albanians are torching Serb homes. And Serb civilians, for obvious reasons, are ignoring the alliance?s promises to protect them and running for Slobo?s Serbia ? only to be turned back by Serb troops. Big-hearted guy, that Milosevic...
...British monarchy but was the offspring of a family, the Spencers, that is at least as old as the British royal family and considers itself in some ways to be rather grander. It is not rare in England to hear the Spencers' Englishness compared favorably with the "foreign" (German) background of the Windsors. The famous speech, given by Diana's younger brother, the Earl of Spencer, at her funeral in London, with its barely contained hostility toward his royal in-laws, moved many people at the time but was in fact an exercise of extraordinary hauteur...
...stars and in boys even. She was always laughing and giggling and always the center of attraction. At that time, my family had just fled Austria and moved to Amsterdam, and I spoke very bad Dutch. But she'd say, "Come and meet my father because he'll speak German with you." Which I did. And Otto Frank was extremely kind. He and his family had fled Frankfurt in 1933. They used to have a bank there but lost it after the Depression. And then the Nazis came to power, and the world changed even more...