Word: hitleritis
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...Holy Writ. Chancellor James Moeser reportedly asked his trustees, "What could be more timely?" And what could be more predictable than the brouhaha that followed: the rumbling overture on Christian websites; the brassy solo by Fox News's Bill O'Reilly, who compared the assignment to having students read Hitler's Mein Kampf in 1941; and the inevitable legal coda? The Virginia-based Family Policy Network, a Christian group, sued U.N.C., claiming the assignment amounted to state-funded promotion of a faith. The North Carolina legislature is considering pulling the school's funds for the project...
...plot is complexity itself. It's Friday in L.A., and tart-tongued management type Lee (Catherine Keener) is ready to walk out on mousy Carl (David Hyde Pierce), a magazine writer who moonlights with plays and film scripts. His Hitler play opens tonight. His movie is being shot right now with movie star Francesca (Julia Roberts) and rising TV actor Calvin (Blair Underwood). The film's producer, Gus (David Duchovny), turns 40 today and is expected at a birthday party a few hours after he gets a massage from Lee's sister Linda (Mary McCormack). Everyone collides, sexually or emotionally...
...Carl's Hitler (the very funny Nicky Katt) explains to Eva Braun, "I'm too committed to my work to maintain a relationship ...I'm taking a swim in Lake Me." This beguiling film is about whether its attractive egocentrics will ever stick their toe in Lake Anybody Else. For an invigorating summer dip in the waters of Lake Smart, dive into Full Frontal...
...leader of the antigovernment gia in 2001, Tourab was quoted as saying, "We will continue to destroy their harvests, take their goods, rape their women, decapitate them in the cities, the villages and the deserts." He died in a military sting operation. DIED. GERHARD WESSEL, 88, former official in Hitler's anti-Soviet spy operation and head of the West German intelligence agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst, between 1968 and 1978; in Pullach, Germany. Wessel was credited with founding Germany's military counter-espionage agency...
...SENTENCED. FRIEDRICH ENGEL, 93, former Nazi SS officer dubbed the "Butcher of Genoa," to seven years in jail for ordering the massacre of 59 prisoners in Italy during World War II; in Hamburg. In his defense, Engel insisted he was only following Hitler's instructions...