Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...half the University could reconcile at least in memory, its dead sons as a sign of the abiding fellowship of memory and of hope to which the University aspires. Never was it to be a patch-up job over fundamental differences. No one who has ever seen the German War Memorial would think for one moment that Harvard University endorsed the cause of the Kaiser, nor would the World War II memorial to Adolph Saanwald imply an endorsement of Hitler. Even the slowest tourist has more sophistication than that, and to imply that future generations of Harvard students would...
...death. It is fitting that a University church should strive to tell a larger truth, and it does so, however painful or ambiguous it may appear to be, by the inclusion of the sons of Harvard in whose death the divisions of our community are made clear. When the German plaques are explained to our visitors the response is nearly always one of admiration and of awe: not for the German cause, but for the fact that in victory Harvard was magnanimous enough, secure enough and convinced enough of its own deals to recall these dead not as strangers...
...large service providers, sober institutions more culturally attuned to their governmental attackers than the info-guerrillas of cyberspace. CompuServe, for its cowardice in folding without a fight, probably deserves the calumny heaped on it by angry users. The company says it hopes to reopen access to all but its German subscribers as soon as it can figure...
With regard to the memorial of the World War II German soldier McPhearson says, "It complicates the matter and makes the argument against [memorial proponents] weaker, but I suppose you could say 'two wrongs don't make a right...
That's just what happened last week, when prosecutors in Munich asked U.S.-based CompuServe, with 4 million members in 140 countries, to stop letting German subscribers see 200 discussion groups and picture databases that, according to the Bavarian state police, violated German pornography laws. The suspect newsgroups are all part of the freewheeling computer conferencing system called Usenet, which is distributed globally via the Internet. The only way CompuServe could promptly comply with the German request was to pull the plug on the newsgroups throughout its system. As a result, U.S. subscribers who try to reach them will find...