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...broad range of solid scholarly research has concluded that popular German anti-Semitism neither accounted for Hitler's triumph nor was it the impetus behind the Final Solution," writes Finkelstein, who is the son of Holocaust survivors...
Kaczynski Competent The Unabomber suspect is competent to stand trial ? and mentally ill, says a court-appointed psychiatrist. That gives prosecutors impetus to agree on a plea bargain. TIME/CNN Report on the trial...
Early in Julie Johnson, the title character's best friend declares "I feel like I don't even know you!" An outburst both of bitter sarcasm and exposed honesty, this declaration epitomizes the humanizing impetus of the play: the need for understanding and the overwhelming alienation of suburban life. In the last full production offered by the HRDC this semester, a small company presented a probing exploration of a middle-class home-maker in her quest to regain control over her own life and come to grips with herself...
...behavior was not entirely spontaneous. The anniversary was an opportunity to present themselves and their children sympathetically to the public, and to rebut charges made in the days immediately following the Princess's death that they remained too remote and unresponsive. They made the most of it. The impetus for the effort came from Tony Blair, who has involved himself with the royal family more actively than any other Prime Minister in decades...
Hynes said the impetus for this bill was the death of ,Gregory Smith, a constituent who died in a traffic accident while driving drunk...