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...most popular traditions in Western political philosophy are inadequate to justify the authority governments wield over individuals, German philosopher Jurgen Habermas asserted in the second and last of the annual Tanner lectures last night in Sanders Theater...
Laws must be justified by and cannot be divorced from moral principles, world-renowned philosopher Jurgen Habermas told a near-capacity Sanders Theater crowd last night at the first of two Tanner Lectures on Human Values...
Petersen's success in drawing the viewer into the characters' physical setting creates a sense of empathy for their mental anguish even if they are somewhat caricatured. The heroically low-keyed captain (Jurgen Prochnow) combines the steely bright blue eyes of an American astronaut with the scruffy beard and weathered skin of an old salt and leads a crew including an ever-dependable lieutenant, a neophyte war correspondent and more than one boy in love...
...blew it in the backstretch." He was determined not to make the same mistake in last Friday's 1,500. The first two laps were leisurely, with Coe and Ovett a few yards off the lead in third and fourth places. Then East Germany's Jurgen Straub, 26, spurted in front, and the quarter-mile pace quickened from 63 sec. to 55, just the way Coe likes it. He hit the accelerator in the backstretch and roared past Straub into the lead. Ovett gave chase but could not even catch the East German. Coe's winning time...
...seller in Germany, a volume of modern myths that has almost Biblical significance for those that lived through The War and knew Nazi Germany; and for the younger generation, for whom the swastika and the "heil" are the lost trapping of a confusing, all too-recent past. Even Hans-Jurgen Syberberg's seven-hour nightmare, Our Hitler, with its pounding Wagner and Beethoven, acknowledges Oskar's drum. It beats in time to the modern German effort to recreate Hegel's sense of history, Goethe's sense of self, Nietzche's sense of strength and Gunter Grass' cheeky sense of post...