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...which means "city of the roads," has been a major trading post since Roman times. This has brought great wealth and cultural variety - Goethe studied at the university, and printing press inventor Johannes Gutenberg lived here for 20 years - but also unwanted visitors. During the 5th century, Attila the Hun prised the city from the Romans. More recently Strasbourg was ceded to France after the 30 Years War, handed over to Germany in 1871 and returned to its previous rulers after World...
...Prime Minister Hun Sen (right), on a roll after sweeping last week's local elections, said Khmer Rouge leaders will be tried in local courts under local law by the end of this year. So thoroughly have the Khmer Rouge seeped into Cambodian society?Hun Sen himself was a low-level commander?that many fear a U.N. trial could plunge the country back into a civil war that only ended...
...head STAR. After leaving college, he had shied away from News Corp., founding Rawkus, a record company that specialized in rap-metal bands a few years before Limp Bizkit made millions with the formula. He also had a brief dalliance with cartooning, producing a strip whose antihero "Albrecht the Hun" preferred literary pursuits to raping and pillaging. But James eventually set aside his own artistic impulses and joined the family fold. He first took over News Corp.'s small but troubled music division in 1996. Next, with investors clamoring for greater involvement with the Internet, he was put in charge...
...have the luxury of that distinction. The Nazis did not represent all Germans. But with the need to destroy the enemy lest he destroy us, those niceties could not be observed. Churchill's wartime speeches had few endearing words for those he insisted on calling the Hun. His bombers made the point with emphasis...
Unfortunately, while Rushing’s character rants to the audience about how nicotine withdrawal makes her feel like Atilla the Hun, her performance lacks the psychotic intensity needed to make the over-the-top scene work...