Word: germanic
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...addition to his current position at Fannie Mae, Raines serves on the Board of Directors of Pfizer Inc. and The Boeing Company. He is Chair of the Visiting Committee of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and was the former president of the Board of Trustees of the German Marshall Fund of the United States...
Zyuganov's parents, neither of whom ever joined the party, were schoolteachers. His father Andrei, a peaceful man whose hobby was beekeeping, nearly lost his right leg to a German bullet in the fighting near Sevastopol and walked with a severe limp for the rest of his life. Like much of rural Russia, Mymrino still lacks plumbing and paved roads. The region suffered from the mass arrests and forced collectivization of Stalin's time, although you won't hear Zyuganov talk about that when he rhapsodizes about Russia's rural past in his speeches...
...clock, anyone can wander into Cabot dining hali and find a table full of friends. There, two of the most popular and frequent dinner companions are Jurij and Emanuela Striedter, the masters. Emanuela gets a compliment on her performance in intramural tennis yesterday and Jurij talks German Philosophy with Dirk...
...article seemed to be a propaganda tool for Turkey to claim ownership. There was no ancient Turkey, and the ancestors of the modern-day Turks did not inhabit the Turkish coast, also known as Asia Minor, in ancient times. So do these artifacts truly belong to the Turkish nation? German and Turkish claims on the Trojan antiquities certainly ring hollow, particularly when you consider that the frieze of the Parthenon and other sculptures taken from the Acropolis in Athens, the crowning symbol of the birth of democracy, still reside as part of the controversial Elgin Marbles in the British Museum...
...your article on the search for Jesus, you stated that German scholar Carsten Peter Thiede thinks a tiny papyrus fragment containing a couple of verses of the Magdalen St. Matthew's Gospel could have been written around A.D. 70 by someone who was an eyewitness to the events described [RELIGION, April 8]. A 1st century date for all four Gospels is now agreed upon by most scholars. Even if St. Matthew's Gospel were written as early as Thiede suggests, this would tell us nothing about the historical value or theological truth of its contents. A Gospel written...