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...drew harsh reactions beyond the courtroom, since they fell far short of what prosecutors had asked for: life imprisonment for four of the defendants and jail terms of between five and ten years for three others. Heinz Galinski, a Jewish spokesman in West Berlin, described the sentences as "an insult to all victims of the National Socialist regime." Even West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt told a group of Israelis who had formerly lived in West Germany that he found himself in "complete understanding" with the victims' relatives...
...easily, with results just as calamitous if not as earthshaking. The danger of misunderstanding increases dramatically when even the most elementary signals are used by people in different cultures. The happiest of overt American signals, the circled thumb and index finger, unless accompanied by a smile, amounts to an insult in France. The innocent American habit of propping a foot on a table or crossing a leg in figure-four style could cause hard feelings among Arabs, to whom the showing of a shoe sole is offensive...
...that the full Socialist program?including nationalizations?will be carried out. "Many Frenchmen doubt Mitterrand's socialism and think that since he no longer needs the Communists, he'll behave as a moderate and govern at the center-left," says Raymond Aron. "I think these skeptics are wrong and insult the President." The President himself supported that view last week, vowing publicly to "fulfill all my promises...
...dregs of the literary population have risen as one worm to insult me," Edith stormed in a typical rhetorical outburst...
Still, Photo's ability to manage people runs much deeper than that. As House Committee chairman last spring, she ran a meeting at which three quarters of the House, hurt and angry about the House's No-Talent Show (which had turned into an insult barrage), showed up to discuss the problems of living at Winthrop House. A roommate calls it her "finest hour," but Photo puts the success of that meeting on the House residents themselves. "What other House would get 275 people out for a meeting about what's wrong with the House? I was proud...