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...where crimes and fires had occurred throughout the city. “He was always pointing out ‘Someone got robbed there,’ ‘There was a fire in that building,’ or something like that,” recalled his grandson, Frederick B. Ikels, a Cambridge firefighter...
...couldn’t leave his house without a book in your hand,” his grandson joked yesterday...
Purely as a novel, Crabwalk is a disappointment. The plot, which turns on the efforts of Pokriefke's tortured teenage son Konrad to understand the tragedy, is predictable. With the exception of Pokriefke's mother, a harridan who dotes on her grandson, the characters are not drawn finely enough to grab the reader. But as a window into the compromises and dishonesties with which Germans have had to live for two generations, the book packs a punch...
...ugly, house-to-house bloodbath the U.S. had feared most, especially in Baghdad. But it happened first in Karbala, which before Baghdad collapsed, loomed as a potential stranglehold on the supply route leading to the capital. History had already stamped Karbala in blood. In 680 A.D., Muhammad's grandson Hussein and a small group of supporters fought to the death here over the right to lead the Muslim faith. Now scouts reported that 500 to 700 Fedayeen Saddam were digging in to make a stand...
...Austrian architects Erich Steinmayr and Friedrich Mascher so that it is concealed within the expanse of palace buildings, it leaves Vienna's skyline unchanged. The art collection of the palace's second owner, Duke Albert of Saxony-Teschen, was already famous in his own lifetime, 1738-1822. Albert's grandson, Archduke Albrecht, allowed the public to view the collection in the family residence as early as 1873, but exhibition space was always limited. Now some 1,000 sq m of gallery space has been created underground, within the bastion. A second 1,000-sq-m exhibition area was created...