Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other assorted oddities: a youngster by the baked brie plate slapped an invitation to a gala ball in my hand after shaking it. He looked twelve years old. The tickets were $250 each. The German consul-general and his lovely wife Anna described their other foreign posts. A quintillionth-generation Harvard sexagenarian discussed Canadian politics with startling insight. A former Harvard rugby player offered to hook up an undergraduate with his 'friend' in business...
...resident fellows are from Harvard: Lisa M. Gates, who is writing about "Images of the African and African American in Modern German Literature and Culture," and Michael Vorenberg, who is working on "Final Freedom: The 13th Amendment in History and Memory...
...year old Baring Bros. Bank. TIME's Michael Brunton reports from London: "Leeson has run out of options. Now he's in for a long trial and a longer sentence in Singapore. I guess the David Frost interview didn't work." Leeson is currently being held in a German prison awaiting a decision on Singapore's application to extradite him. Leeson's lawyers said they would fight the British decision...
...former Yugoslavia and to the U.S. allies in Europe--that a qualitative change had taken place. After four years of ambivalence and only partial engagement, America was taking charge. ''Clinton has recognized that without American involvement and force, no resolution is possible." said an official at the German foreign ministry. "The President knows," said White House press secretary Mike McCurry, "that the times when we make even modest progress on Bosnia are when we step in and exert leadership...
...Corps's first unit of African-American combat pilots. He remembers traveling in the South with his fellow airmen and being forced out of his seat and into the Negroes-only car at the front of the train, where the soot and smoke were thickest, to make room for German pows. He recalls being barred from the cafeteria at military bases, where Italian pows were served hot meals. As he tells these stories, Dryden begins to cry. "How could my country do this to me?" he asks. "It still hurts like hell...