Word: ivan
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...took a special brand of cruelty to stand out amid the horrors of the Holocaust, but "Ivan the Terrible" was no ordinary sadist. As a Nazi guard, Ivan earned his sobriquet by ushering thousands of prisoners - sometimes hacking them with a sword as they passed - into the gas chambers at Poland's Treblinka death camp. After the war, he vanished. Decades later, in the late 1970s, U.S. authorities fingered a suspect: John Demjanjuk, a retired autoworker residing in a Cleveland suburb...
...emerged. He has had his U.S. citizenship revoked, then reinstated. In March 2009, after a protracted period of diplomatic wrangling, Demjanjuk was extradited to Germany, where a German court charged the 89-year-old with being an accessory to at least 27,900 murders. The allegations stem not from Ivan the Terrible's reign at Treblinka but rather from Demjanjuk's alleged role as a guard at Sobibor, another Nazi death camp. On Nov. 30, the accused was wheeled into a Munich courtroom for the start of what could be the last major Nazi war-crimes trial...
...cheaper alternatives, such as moderately-priced bar menus in high-end restaurants. In addition, the are gravitating towards fixed price specials offered by eateries eager to lure in bargain diners.“We can only control what happens in the restaurant,” said Harvest General Manager Ivan T. Law. “The experience is what we can control.” For Om, change has meant offering more specials and deals.“We adjusted our prices,” Horgan said. “We try to be accommodating.”At Small...
...bigger companies, they didn’t cancel altogether. As opposed to doing a dinner, they’d do a cocktail hour.” Harvest, an upscale eatery on Brattle Street, has lost much of its corporate business because of the recession, according to Ivan T. Law, the restaurant’s general manager. “We used to do a lot of private dining with financial firms,” Law said, adding that one firm in particular has been on a leave of absence. “We don’t see as much...
...Fugate will take over a 4,400-worker agency charged with the daunting task of rescuing America from man-made and natural disasters, as well as nuclear attack. Luckily, Fugate, 49, has plenty of emergency experience, having served as the go-to guy when Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Jeanne and Ivan battered Florida's coast in 2004, followed by Hurricanes Dennis, Katrina, Rita and Wilma in 2005 - not to mention the various droughts, tornadoes, wildfires and tropical storms that have visited the state during his nearly 15-year tenure as assistant director and then director of the Florida Division of Emergency...