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...little deeper into Internet archives, and finally made it to the time of that monumental mistake on Nov. 2. Following the election, German newspaper, Die Zeit—no, Republican readers, it’s not some red rag—ran headlines like, “Warum Wieder Er?” (Why Him Again?) and “Der ungeliebte Sieger” (The Unloved Victor) in the days after the election. One particular article which caught my eye, boasted, “Europeans are bitterly disappointed” about the election result. These didn?...
Like everything in life, Dada is useless," proclaimed the Romanian-born poet Tristan Tzara in 1922, when the subversive art form was in its heyday. Yet nearly a hundred years later, people are still visiting the nerve center of this willfully useless movement. In 1916 the German poet Hugo Ball, who lived in Zurich at the time, opened a caf?-cum-theater called Cabaret Voltaire, where Tzara, Hans Arp and other nonconformist artists gathered. It was in the Cabaret's upstairs room that the group is said to have decided to find a name as incongruous as their free-form...
...evidence yesterday that a high-ranking Nazi officer was offered an honorary position at his 25th Harvard reunion, that crew members of a Nazi naval ship were invited to a reception benefiting Phillips Brooks House and that the University recognized the 550th anniversary of the University of Heidelberg, a German institution purged of Jewish professors. Norwood also cited Crimson editorials as evidence of anti-Semitism within the Harvard student body...
...said Norwood, who claimed that Conant “was not just silent” towards anti-Semitism, but “actively collaborated in it.” Norwood said Conant refused to hire many Jewish professors and insisted that Harvard maintain friendly ties with German universities, despite knowing their curricula had been modified to support Nazi beliefs...
...less than expected and half the pace registered in the first six months. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and other Italian officials called for coordinated intervention by central banks to support the dollar, which briefly dropped to a low of $1.30 against the euro, hurting European exports. Wolfgang Clement, the German Economy Minister, said the European Central Bank should "do its part to calm the situation." But don't expect large-scale international intervention anytime soon; the U.S. shows no signs of being unhappy about the trend. Still, ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet "is caught between a rock and a hard...