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...Witness who was incarcerated by the Nazis for having refused military service. His presentation was conducted in interview format, with questions posed by graduate student Johann Boedecker. Engleithner’s biographer, Bernhard Rammerstorfer, sat alongside the survivor to translate questions into his native Austrian dialect of German. Before Engleitner spoke, Rammerstorfer told the audience the story of how he first met Englietner and what he learned from him. “It was clear for me that this man was something special and that his story could provide valuable lessons for the peaceful co-existence for mankind...
...waits for his wife Léonie to give birth. His anxiety is exacerbated by snobby in-laws and a domineering midwife. Though the character of the midwife was a pushy Frenchwoman in the Feydeau original, Shapiro’s translation renders her a robust “German frau.” “I thought it would be a little funnier to create this Valkyrie-type character,” he says.Shapiro takes a “certain amount of liberty” with Feydeau’s work, as well as with all the works...
...Germany and France, always wary of enlargement, have raised doubts about Turkey and the Balkans, who are currently in talks to join. Last month, German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for a "phase of consolidation" in the E.U. once Croatia becomes the 28th member in a few years. Enlargement skeptics like Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy raise mainly political objections but the recession gives an added budgetary argument. (See pictures of Sarkozy...
...expert on modern European history, she speaks German, French, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, and Italian. She praises the language courses at Harvard to which she always refers students seeking to do research in a particular region. Even she has taken up Italian classes in the Romance Languages and Literatures department in preparation for her next book on the port city of Trieste...
...reestablishing order after the bloody chaos of the Mexican Revolution. It set up an elective dictatorship, one of the world's most corrupt, infamous for ballot-box fraud and notorious for blaming all its epic failings on Washington. The party was also as soulless as its massive, East German-style headquarters in Mexico City. It stood for little more than the cynical acquisition of power and its spoils - the manifestation of Octavio Paz's premise that Mexico is a country sadly divided between chingones (the screwers) and chingados (the screwed). The conservative PAN and liberal PRD at least have identifiable...