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...increasing employment. Consumers would also benefit from lower prices as a result of greater competition. It's a grand vision, but putting it into practice is tricky. This month, the European Commission retreated on its proposed directive for liberalizing the service industry after furious opposition from the French and German governments. Charlie McCreevy, the Commissioner responsible for the internal market, told the European Parliament that the Services Directive in its current form "has not a snowball's chance in hell" of being approved by governments and the Parliament. E.U. heads of government are expected to discuss the issue at this...
...problem of forgetting is a theme of German history and historiography, this is not only the result of conscious repression. It comes also from the sheer unrepresentability of the extent of horror inflicted and suffered during the twelve years of the Third Reich...
...film does not explain why Hitler was the man he was. Nor can it justify Traudl’s attraction to him. It is wise enough not to attempt to—even if, by putting him on screen at all, it breaks a taboo rarely tested by German filmmakers...
...Post-war German politicians and thinkers so often called for a Vergangenheisbewältigung—for a “coming to terms with the past,” or, to translate the word more literally, a mastery...
...power to kick anybody off for good. There isn't even a master switch that can shut it down in case of emergency. "It's the closest thing to true anarchy that ever existed," says Clifford Stoll, a Berkeley astronomer famous on the Internet for having trapped a German spy who was trying to use it to break into U.S. military computers...