Word: grandness
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That is putting it gently. Much as Einstein struggled toward the end of his life to fashion a Grand Unified Theory explaining the entire cosmos, Verhaeghen links Nazism, the Holocaust, the nuclear age and the fall of communism in a grand web of causality and suspense. Hitler, Himmler, Mengele, Speer, Heisenberg, Honnecker and Gorbachev strut and fret through hot war and cold. The action ricochets back and forth from the '30s to the '90s, from Potsdam to Los Alamos to Auschwitz to post-Wall Berlin, where neo-Nazis are plotting an apocalypse that could put new zip in Einstein...
...Martel said she already has grand designs...
Christmas Story lampoons holiday greed but delights in it too--there's no platitudinous ending about how Christmas isn't really about presents. That's perfect for a society of people who tell pollsters that Christmas has become too commercial yet spend north of a grand on it on average. Just as voters hate Congress yet re-elect their Congressmen, so do we think that everyone else's Christmas is corrupt while our own is full of meaning...
Sophomore soccer standout Andre Akpan has yet another accolade to add to his more than lengthy list of accomplishments. The Grand Prairie, Texas native was recently named one of 15 semifinalists for the prestigious Hermann Trophy. The Hermann Trophy, which is given out by the Missouri Athletic Club, is awarded to the top Division I soccer player in the country, and has never before been presented to a Harvard athlete. Akpan—who led the Ivy League in points, scoring and assists this past season, as well as being ranked second nationally in scoring with a 2.06 points...
...mention of Iraq in his take on Clinton may reflect the low priority she gives the war. She tragically misreads how the majority of Americans view the conflict. And while Clinton is tiptoeing around the issue, Barack Obama and John Edwards have a campaign opening as wide as the Grand Canyon if they're wise enough to use it. M. Lewis Stein, Irvine, Calif...