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...CELTS edited by Sabatino Moscati, Otto Hermann Frey, Venceslas Kruta, Barry Raftery and Miklos Szabo (Rizzoli...
Except for a few interpreters and administrators, the East's entire 2,500- member diplomatic corps was dismissed. Hermann Schweisau, who was East Berlin ambassador to Finland, Afghanistan and Vietnam, is currently deputy head of the Association of Former Diplomats, which has helped about 125 of his former colleagues train for jobs in sales, insurance and banking. "A lot of potential is being wasted," he says, noting that many of his clients are knowledgeable about countries where the Federal Republic had little or no diplomatic representation. "The former ambassador to Mongolia is just sitting at home, although...
...character: a commitment to principle, a willingness to sacrifice, a devotion to the community by the choice of the individual. But among its toxic fruits are intolerance, belligerence and blind obedience, perhaps because it blooms most luxuriantly during times of war. Tyrants know this. It was Hitler's henchman Hermann Goring who noted that "all you have to do is tell people they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country...
Thus spoke Hermann Goering...
Tchaikovsky and Verdi Arias, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone; Valery Gergiev conducting the Rotterdam Philharmonic (Philips). Hvorostovsky, 28, has a voice that is big, rich and -- most important -- silky smooth. There hasn't been a baritone with this force and allure since the young Hermann Prey...