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...quick doubling of wages in the east following reunification later that same year. "There was a revaluation by a factor of eight. Which industry anywhere could swallow that?" Haimann asks, pointing out that some of Germany's eastern neighbors, including Poland and the Czech Republic, managed to hang on to many more jobs because they kept their currency cheap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Germany Got for Its $2 Trillion | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...into American history. General George Washington convened a precursor to a military commission - a board of inquiry - in 1780 to try a British major accused of conspiring with Benedict Arnold during the Revolutionary War. The board recommended to Washington that Major John Andre be executed, and he was promptly hanged. Military commissions' first documented use came during the Mexican-American War in 1847, when the U.S. Army occupied large areas of Mexico that lacked a working court system. Since then they've been used to prosecute thousands in the U.S. and abroad during the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Spanish-American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Military Commissions | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...Patrick Gavin (12:40 a.m.) Night highlight: finding bon jovi by himself: "what, no one to hang out with?" "I know!" "For a change" "very true sir" (smile) I repeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tweets From a Washington Dinner (a.k.a. #nerdprom) | 5/9/2009 | See Source »

...being a rock star like being a Harvard student?Max: It’s not like being a Harvard student at all. D.A.: You’re not in college Max: You’re not in class, don’t go to dining hall. D.A.: You do hang out with a lot of rich people. Max: A lot of arrogant rich pricks. Who are actually stupider than they think they are. A lot of people who only care about money too. 14. FM: You produced much of “Love the Future” while at Harvard...

Author: By Kevin Lin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Chester French | 5/7/2009 | See Source »

...dialogue is as flavorless as cardboard, “It’s like I have been spinning my wheels,” says Inman to Kathryn. Are we really to believe that these people are as one-dimensional as Amidon makes them out to be?As his characters hang on to whatever fact they can, Amidon himself refuses to lose control. His reliance on formula comes across more as reluctance to hazard outside of the safe bounds of cliché than lack of talent. In “Security,” Amidon demonstrates that he has a flair...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Amidon’s ‘Security’ Probes, If Predictably | 5/5/2009 | See Source »

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