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...German peace feeler was a desperate maneuver by Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, the police and the concentration camps, who had escaped from Berlin to the north German port of L??beck. There he told a diplomat from neutral Sweden that Germany was willing to surrender to the Americans and British. At worst, Himmler thought, this would enable Germany to throw all its troops against the Soviets; at best, the Western Allies would join the German defense. Himmler seems even to have cherished the illusion that the Allies would support him, the lord of the Holocaust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: V-E Day: There Was Such a Feeling of Joy | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

More than 15 years after she suffered cardiac arrest (from a potassium imbalance that may have been caused by an eating disorder), which deprived her brain of oxygen and left her in what most doctors have diagnosed as a persistent vegetative state, Schiavo has become a cause cl??bre for the right-to-life movement. Already mentioned in all sorts of fund-raising literature, Schiavo is a symbol not just for those fighting the right-to-die movement but also in the battle over abortion, stem-cell research and judicial activism. "We're replacing the sanctity of life with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lessons of the Schiavo Battle | 3/27/2005 | See Source »

Just before 10 a.m. yesterday, HoCo members readied a group of seven Lowell residents to storm the Yard, distributing hand-painted posters, smearing an “L?? on bare cheeks, and outfitting enthusiastic participants with White-Castle themed t-shirts that read “Lowell House—It’s What You Crave...

Author: By Margaret W. Ho, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: With Fanfare, Houses Welcome Freshmen | 3/25/2005 | See Source »

Giving him a hug, Chandler congratulated him, quickly applying a blue “L?? to his cheek...

Author: By Margaret W. Ho, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: With Fanfare, Houses Welcome Freshmen | 3/25/2005 | See Source »

Mondovino begins with an account of “L??Affaire Mondavi,” hotshot Napa newcomer Robert Mondavi’s attempt to buy out older vineyards in the Burgundy region of France. From there the documentary spirals wildly to both the deeply individual and personal—one woman’s decision to quit her job; a father’s disapproval of his profit-minded son—and the staggeringly broad—the rights of laborers; the aftermath of fascism; and the costs of globalization...

Author: By Laura E. Kolbe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MOVIE REVIEW: Mondovino | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

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