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...sight of the social and economic challenges his country faces, Schröder has followed in the footsteps of the greatest statesman Germany ever had, Willy Brandt. Underestimated at home as well as abroad, Schröder legalized gay marriage, eased immigration laws, inaugurated an impressive (and long overdue) Holocaust memorial, made his country No. 1 in world exports, and opposed the war in Iraq. In my view, not a bad record at all for seven years in office, and a pretty difficult act to follow! Martin Sauter Paris...
...films they created." Some notables avoided this identification so assiduously they seemed downright anti-Semitic. Walter Lippmann did so, refusing to become a member of (or even give a lecture to) any Jewish organization; and this Goliath among U.S. commentators chose never to write a single word about the Holocaust...
...international team of volcanologists have gathered to study Nevado del Ruiz. The scientists were far from reassuring. "This volcano is potentially at the beginning of activity that could last weeks, months and years," said Darrell G. Herd of the U.S. Geological Survey. For now, the survivors of the volcanic holocaust face a new life of trembling uncertainty. --By Michael S. Serrill. Reported by Bernard Diederich/Armero and Tom Quinn/Bogot...
...Holocaust survivor, I learned that there are three sources that can provide endurance and strength. They are love of G-d, love of a woman and love of freedom. Anatoli Shcharansky [WORLD, Feb. 24] has all three. Rabbi Isaac C. Avigdor West Hartford, Conn...
Following the fortunes of one family for nearly two millenniums requires an epic of biblical dimension. In another writer's hands such a project might seem an unholy wedding of hubris and chutzpah. But Halter is an extraordinary contributor to the post-Holocaust literature of lament. The author is the son, grandson and greatgrandson of printers and publishers in Warsaw. As a child, he was smuggled to safety through the sewers of the city's ghetto as the Germans closed in; after wandering in the Soviet Union, he found his way to France. "Somewhere along the line," he recalls...