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Late last month, the Swiss-based Anne Frank Fonds (foundation), which holds the rights to all of Frank's writings, threatened to sue the Amsterdam newspaper Het Parool after it ran previously unpublished pages from Anne's diary about the elder Franks' relationship. The paper would not divulge the source of its story. But the prime suspect is Cor Suijk, a senior official at the Anne Frank Center in New York City and a source for German journalist Melissa Muller's new and well-timed biography Anne Frank (Metropolitan Books; 330 pages...
...dismissal was welcomed by Dutroux's lawyer, who called the move "infinite wisdom" it has shaken confidence in Belgium's legal system. Already undermined by accusations that the investigation was badly bungled before Conerotte took over, the legal apparatus is also under attack by newspapers like the daily Het Volk, which ran the headline "Powerless Anger" over a story on the case. -->
...course Scripture is open to interpretation; ethics do change with the times. Most Judeo-Christians don't prohibit shellfish anymore or appease the deity with slaughtered rams. But there's something suspect about a brand of Judeo-Christianity that can get all het up about the spilling of seed while gliding right past the Sermon on the Mount. We seem to have chosen the easy path, the one that comforts the already comfortable and harangues the already hard pressed. We're the post-Judeo-Christian generation, and the Christian Right is turning out to be nothing more than Christian Lite...
...hear Ron bad-mouth the policies of the Reagan Administration. He treads the tightrope in Jimmy Stewart style, his aw- shucks ingenuity tempered with wry skepticism. The kid needs both in this R-rated melange of volatile guests (discussing steroids, Fundamentalism, rap music, gay rage) and a rowdy, het-up audience. The result is part encounter group, part bear baiting. And Ron seems willing to play, not omniscient emcee, but human sacrifice. "I used to be able to control this show," he quipped after both he and his wife had been called gay, "but no more." It makes for gruesome...
...Reflections to a Dutch correspondent. On July 10, a few days after returning to the Installation and exactly seven years after my clash with Khrushchev over nuclear testing, I turned on the BBC or VOA and heard my name. The announcer reported that on July 6 the Dutch newspaper Het Parool had published my article...