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...there's a darker side to ostalgie, a yearning for the old order among elderly Ossis to whom life in reunited Germany hasn't always proved kind. Hubertus Knabe - the director of Hohenschönhausen, a former G.D.R. prison and now a memorial - argues that the success of Die Linke in the eastern states reveals a dangerous form of amnesia. His book Honeckers Erben (Honecker's Heirs) depicts Die Linke as direct descendants of G.D.R. leader Erich Honecker's repressive communist regime. "It's a very human quality to whitewash the past," he says. But he adds the warning...
...acknowledge its difficult history. Yet for every memorial, there's also a theme-park rendition of the past. At Potsdamer Platz you can have your picture taken with smiling "border guards" next to remounted Wall panels, decorated with faux graffiti on their eastern faces. "It's disgusting," says Knabe. "And it makes harmless something far from harmless." (Read: "The Battle For Berlin...
...wouldn't have abandoned their babies in any form to do so," says Adam Pertman of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute. Even some people who favor legal surrender of newborns are uncomfortable with expanding the law's reach to month-old babies. Los Angeles County board supervisor Don Knabe has lobbied Schwarzenegger to leave California's three-day law intact. He says pushing parents to make an early decision ensures that unwanted infants get the care and medical attention they need, and dissuades parents from abusing a baby and then waiting for the bruises to fade before giving...
...state security forces from being erected outside Germany's Stasi memorial, an old interrogation center and prison that now serves as a museum. "They are telling lies!" shouted the group's organizer, Wolfgang Schmidt, a former agent, who also used his website to accuse the museum's director, Hubertus Knabe, of being a "professional agitator." Earlier this month, Schmidt was ordered to stop communicating with or about Knabe, or face a fine. Two new books by ex-Stasi agents also portray the secret police as professional men upholding the law of the land. "In our intelligence work we never used...
...SWIMMING Keith Beavers, Orangeville, Ont. Mike Brown, Perth, Ont. Scott Dickens, Ancaster, Ont. Jennifer Fratesi, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. Erin Gammel, Barriere, B.C. Brent Hayden, Mission, B.C. Andrew Hurd, Oakville, Ont. Riley Janes, Saskatoon, Sask. Brian Johns, Richmond, B.C. Mark Johnston, St. Catharines, Ont. Morgan Knabe, Calgary Rhiannon Leier, Winnipeg Yannick Lupien, Ste-Foy, Que. Mike Mintenko, Moose Jaw, Sask. Nathaniel O'Brien, Victoria, B.C. Brittany Reimer, Surrey, B.C. Matt Rose, Lindsay, Ont. Rick Say, Salmon Arm, B.C. Lauren van Oosten, Calgary Elizabeth Warden, Toronto...