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...could then expect Providence, R.I., and New Bedford, Mass., to celebrate a victory that has been agonizingly long in coming. Portugal will have much to do before such a result, of course. Germany could easily stand in their way. In his preparations for Euro 2008, German coach Joachim Loew has run his team through basketball drills to improve its defense. That's an original American game, of course, and we're more than happy to share it with him. After all, German immigrants helped establish football in America. It's good to return the favor...
There'll be an unfamiliar face at Angela Merkel's side when the German Chancellor travels to President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, on Friday - Germany's "first gentleman," Joachim Sauer. Unlike other head-of-state spouses in Germany and elsewhere, Sauer is rarely seen at his wife's side as she carries out her duties as the world's most powerful woman...
...DIED. Joachim Fest, 79, German author of the psychologically incisive, globally acclaimed 1973 work Hitler; in Kronberg-im-Taunus, Germany. Fest shed light on the Third Reich by examining its leadership in dispassionate, vivid detail. He attributed Hitler's rise not primarily to economics, as many German historians have, but to the abdication of moral responsibility by educated Germans...
...DIED. Joachim Fest, 79, celebrated German author of the psychologically incisive, globally acclaimed 1973 work Hitler; in Kronberg-im-Taunus, Germany. A political conservative whose father was fired from his job for refusing to join the Nazi Party, Fest shed light on the Third Reich by examining its leadership in dispassionate, vivid detail. He attributed Hitler's rise not primarily to economics, as many German historians have, but to the abdication of moral responsibility by educated Germans...
...supposed to be the most serious, solemn, super-politicized Toronto International Film Festival ever. And we have had plenty of grim testimonies, both doc and mock, to terrorism in the pre- and post-9/11 world, from Alexander Oey's My Life as a Terrorist: The Story of Hans Joachim Klein - which documents the seizing of OPEC Ministers in Vienna in 1975 by a commando brigade that included Klein and was led by Carlos the Jackal - to Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein's meticulous, devastating The Prisoner: Or, How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair, the story of an Iraqi...