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...alternative to Scheme Z, McManus advocated a plan developed by Stephen Kaiser, a Cambridge teacher and former state transportaion engineer. Kaiser's plan calls for a series of tunnels built underneath the Charles to replace the interchange...
...station. The night before, he had carved his initials on a windowsill of his parents' farmhouse in Jutland, "so you won't forget me." A few years earlier, Germany had inhaled his part of Denmark, and thus as a teenager he was in danger of being drafted into the Kaiser's army. No thanks. His folks scraped together enough money to buy him passage to the U.S. So say the family stories, a bit hazy in parts, like everyone's family stories, though the windowsill and the initials were still there a century later...
...visionary editors: "I hire lots of people who are smarter than I am, and I act as a catalyst." Still, the final question that will have to be answered by the Downie regime is whether the Post can flourish without a single controlling vision at the top. Says Robert Kaiser, 47, who came in second to Downie in the race for Bradlee's spot and will become deputy managing editor in September: "Ben is the only editor in your time and mine who will appear in our grandchildren's history books. Life after Bradlee is daunting. It's hard...
...proclaimed the Third Republic and vowed to continue the war, Moltke insisted on besieging Paris. By now it seemed clear to the German princes who had followed Prussia into the war that their future lay in a united Germany under Prussian leadership. Bismarck artfully arranged to have William crowned Kaiser (Caesar) in January of 1871 in the palace of Versailles, that bastion of the French kings, while the hungry citizens of nearby Paris endured the Prussian siege...
...next 20 years Bismarck used all his craft and guile to maintain the peace among Europe's constantly maneuvering rulers. But his Reich was deeply undemocratic: he despised the legislators of the Reichstag, and was not responsible to them, but only to the Kaiser, whom he bullied and cajoled. Everyone expected that when the aged William finally died, his relatively liberal and high-minded son Frederick would lead the empire into a more enlightened era. But when William did die, in 1888, Frederick was already mortally ill with throat cancer, and so the throne soon passed to his temperamental...