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...striking similarities between Forbess and the animated lion she inspired. “I’ve been told that you can still see it in my face,” Forbess says. Afterwards, Forbess took on small roles in a couple of movies and appeared in a German candy bar commercial, but a role like Nala never came again. “It was a good experience because I learned not to take rejection too much to heart,” Forbess said, “and it always makes a great story...
...will struggle to protect their longtime hold on Nordic events from the Russian, Ukrainian and Czech skiers hot on their heels. Austrian ski great Hermann Maier will attempt to complete his miraculous comeback from a near fatal motorcycle crash in 2001 by adding to his two Olympic gold medals. German speed skater Anni Friesinger will face a strong field of U.S. and Canadian racers. Japanese ski jumpers, Korean short-track speedsters and even the British curling team are vying for a medal or two. As for that final gold-medal match in hockey, North Americans would like...
...destruction. These changes cannot be only in word but must also be in deed: Hamas must take actions that make it clear that it is committed to working towards peace in the Middle East, such as demonstrating a willingness to engage in negotiations towards coexistence. As German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently said, “Germany expects all political forces that carry responsibility to accept the preconditions for political activity. That means for me, firstly, that Israel’s right to existence is recognized, and secondly, there is no use of violence.” Should Hamas fail...
...unfolding of great historical events never fails to provide a few delicious examples of irony. Perhaps the best I have encountered, though, was French Prime Minister Leon Blum’s remarks to a visiting German minister in 1936. While talking to the ambassador of an ideology that would, in the near future, invade his country and butcher millions of his coreligionists he said: “I am a Marxist and a Jew, but we cannot achieve anything if we treat ideological barriers as insurmountable...
...Welt, Spain's El Periodico, the Netherlands' de Volkskrant and Italy's La Stampa, then responded by republishing the drawings in support of the principle of free expression. "I don't really understand the fuss," Die Welt editor Roger K?ppel, who ran one on his front page today, told German television. "Arabic television has shown beheadings and staged bestial rituals involving Jewish rabbis. We're seeing double standards at work here, and it's the job of journalists to expose them." Larry Kilman, communications director of the World Association of Newspapers, says the "overreaction in the Middle East is disturbing...