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...Nigerian child-soldiers in rehabilitation. He gives no illusory messages of hope. On the contrary, all hope is extirpated in the epigraph, in which Rimbaud’s forlorn words resound: “je parvins à faire s’évanouir dans mon esprit toute l??esperance humaine” (“I managed to make all human hope disappear from my mind”). Yet the act of telling Agu’s story must be a positive first step...
...surprisingly, local politicians and trade unionists have condemned the venture, which has chalked up 1,800 brokered deals, 10,000 registered users and thousands of hits a day, as "a slave market" and "grave threat" to the country's long-cherished social model. Its founder, Mnster student Fabian L??w, 32, however, believes his website is long-overdue applied realism. "We start where the politicians stop telling people the truth," says L??w, who plans to go global in September. Wages in Germany are so high, he argues, that "it has been too expensive to create new jobs." L?...
After the war, political neutrality, social stability and cultural heritage helped spawn a popular aphorism: Austria's greatest postwar feat was to convince the world that Beethoven was an Austrian and Hitler a German. Says Vienna Psychiatrist Harald Leupold-L??wenthal: "Waldheim is not such a surprising case. He adjusted, as many did, and then forgot the truth...
...have been hurt, and they have come through their personal torment, needing each other today with a degree of happiness that is freer and better than anything they had before." Wanda is at once mother, sister, friend, wife, adviser and sweetheart, guarding her husband against any real or perceived l??se majest. "In the end," notes another family friend, "she believes faithfully and passionately that his genius is to play the piano like no one else around...
Pring-Wilson called it self defense; a year and a half later, a jury called it voluntary manslaughter. The killing catapulted Pring-Wilson into the infamy of Court TV and made his case into a cause cél??bre. He is now serving his six-to-eight year prison sentence. The verdict is being appealed...