Word: josef
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...wasn't the result of unschooled insensitivity. It came from that dark side of man's nature which most assuredly spans the boundaries of class and education. Theodore J. Kaczynski was a Harvard man, wasn't he? And I recall that Fidel Castro, Ted Bundy, and Dr. Josef Mengele were "educated" men. Schooling can't wipe away bloodlust and evil from the human spirit--it paints them nicer colors, making them all the more horrible indeed...
...mentor at Denver was the Czech refugee Josef Korbel, Madeleine Albright's father. This coincidence serves to highlight her differences with Albright, who has become the foremost proponent of an ideal-driven foreign policy. While Rice says that in foreign policy "America's values are extremely important," she hews closer to the tradition of Korbel and other realists, such as Hans Morgenthau, who place greater weight on defending strategic interests and tending to the balance of power...
Indeed, Kosovo has illustrated how much Albright's outlook and style are rooted in her personal history. Her father, the wartime Czechoslovak diplomat Josef Korbel, was witty and gregarious, with a knack for survival. Madeleine, who as a child spent two lonely years in Belgrade when he was ambassador there, developed an instinctive antipathy toward thugs. As TIME's Ann Blackman explains in her Albright biography, Seasons of Her Life (Scribner), she mirrors him: she has a deep reservoir of intelligence and wit, but sometimes seems to wear blinders to protect her from things that clash with her self-image...
...about the "salvation of the German people." Hence the Allies saw the Third Reich's campaign against smoking as the product of fascism, not science. "It is still taboo to say anything positive about Nazi research," says Proctor, whose earlier work exposed the unspeakable acts of doctor-torturers like Josef Mengele. Meanwhile, the Nazis themselves continued to supply tobacco to their troops...
...THIRTEENTH FLOOR Directed by Josef Rusnak Starring Armin Mueller-Stahl, Craig Bierko June...