Word: josef
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Meanwhile in Moscow, Russian Orthodox clergy were jubilant that the bells were finally coming back to the 724-year-old Danilov Monastery, where they hung until an American industrialist rescued them from Josef Stalin's campaign to convert religious artifacts into raw materials...
...stability and economic growth to the South American country-which had seen six Presidents toppled from 1948 to 1954-before being ousted in a 1989 coup and exiled; in Brasília. The macho general, who flashed his name in neon across the country and famously sheltered Nazis including Josef Mengele, solidified and maintained his control by rigging elections, torturing and murdering perceived enemies, and turning his country into a smuggling capital (the "price of peace," he once said). By the 1980s, as his power waned, the U.S., a onetime supporter because of Stroessner's anticommunist stance, labeled his regime...
...Josef von Sternberg was a famous Hollywood auteur in 1930 and Dietrich a minor Berlin actress when he cast her as Lola, the crass chanteuse of The Blue Angel. Just like that, a star was born: an anti-Garbo who viewed life and love as a series of awful amusements. In their seven films together--of which a terrific trio (Morocco, Blonde Venus and The Devil Is a Woman) are included here--Sternberg swathed Dietrich's wry sexuality in silk, feathers, a gorilla suit and his camera's soft-focus devotion. As his films got more deliriously abstract...
...amaze me. Can Olmert explain how he would achieve peace by unilaterally setting the border, thereby annexing as much as half of the West Bank and Jerusalem and leaving 4 million Palestinians in a series of disconnected cantons? Mike Barnes Watford, England Lessons Unlearned In his Viewpoint [April 17], Josef Joffe traces the trajectory of the economic rise of China and compares it to the past examples of Germany and Japan, which, of course, ended badly. He concludes that this time things could be different because of the lessons of history and a price of miscalculation, which is now obviously...
...lobbied senators to oppose the bill. Yet not every athlete desperate to find a welcoming Olympic team makes the cut. Greece's national bobsled and skeleton teams include at least two Canadians and three Americans with dual citizenship, but they still didn't qualify for the Games. Austrian skier Josef Strobl had no chance to penetrate his country's talent-deep ski team. So Strobl, who had a Slovenian great-grandfather, tried for a spot on Slovenia's team - but didn't make that, either. The Olympic dream fuels the nation-hopping. Alpine skier Christelle Douibi and cross-country skier...