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...German Professor Peter J. Burgard rose to read the sentiments of Physics Professor Eric Mazur (“mandatory Q evaluation is just going to serve as another excuse to postpone doing anything of substance and further cement our current approach to teaching”). Burgard said that he believed the Q is an unreliable metric of teacher performance...
...brazen heist took place at 4:30 in the afternoon, while 15 visitors strolled around three floors of the vine-covered villa. The masked thieves, including one who witnesses said spoke German with a Slavic accent, ordered the museum staff at gunpoint to lie on the floor. They then stripped the wall of the downstairs salon of four paintings, considered to be among the museum's most expensive, says the museum's curator, Lukas Gloor. The heist took less than three minutes and nobody was hurt...
...recent memory. In the Crimson’s first long race of the season, the men’s Nordic team skied a 20K classic at the Oakhill course, one which many experienced Harvard skiers had never faced. The eventual winner of the lengthy competition previously skied for the German National Team. The Crimson put up a good bid, with sophomore Trevor Petach in 48th and co-captain Oliver Burruss in 49th. With senior Andrew Moore finishing a few places behind at the 52nd spot, the combined effort put up 24 points for the Crimson. “You don?...
...recalcitrance is partly political. "After Iraq, after Abu Ghraib, after Guantanamo, it is very, very difficult for Germans to agree to put their troops under U.S. command, " says Henning Riecke, a security specialist at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin who advocates sending more German troops to Afghanistan. "Most Germans don't like the U.S. way of doing war." Germany, like many European countries, is also arguing that more emphasis be placed on reconstruction and less on combat, although some acknowledge that the two are not always separable. There has to be a peace to keep...
...Those differences may help explain why Secretary Gates' letter, intended for official eyes only, was leaked to newspapers in Germany and widely characterized as another typical example of U.S. bullying. Describing the letter, which has not been made public, in harsh terms may have been an attempt by reluctant German officials to sabotage the appeal before it got off the ground, analysts say. With the Bush Administration as unpopular as ever, and public opinion set strongly against the idea (some 80% of Germans say they do not want to see their soldiers in combat) opposing even reasonable requests from Washington...