Word: lieberman
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...Bernard Lieberman was reared a child of privilege in a small town outside Lodz, Poland. He was one of nine children in an Orthodox Jewish family that lived largely off the money of affluent relatives and regularly opened up its home to poor neighbors. But that comfortable life swiftly ended on Sept. 1, 1939, when the Nazis stormed into Poland. Only 19, Bernard was soon separated from his siblings and transported from camp to camp, doing time in Auschwitz-Birkenau...
Bernard (who later changed his last name from Lieberman to Lee) made it out of the war alive, but he lost his entire family. Now, like many survivors, he is fighting to get something back. In October he joined a class action filed in the Federal District Court of New York against Dresdner Bank, where a wealthy family member had an account. "There were 6 million people who were murdered, and every family had something," says Lee. "Our things do not belong to them, and justice will be done when they are given back...
...tried to portray himself as an earnest public servant guided only by his reverence for the law--couldn't help veering, sometimes coyly, into political finger wagging. In the middle of his sober presentation there was Starr embracing the three Democratic Senators--Pat Moynihan, Bob Kerrey and Joe Lieberman--who had dared go to the floor in August to say that Clinton's private behavior was a public offense...
There's slim hope that this vast reservoir of alienated, alternatively minded youth will try to wrest political power from those old-fashioned enough to notice Election Day. They might unite in resistance if cultural warriors like William Bennett and Joseph Lieberman, who regularly denounce obscenity and bad attitudes in pop culture, were to foster some repressive legislation. (Imagine the headlines: HIP-HOP AND HEAVY METAL BANNED! SOUTH PARK CREATORS IMPRISONED!) But the revolutionists who would bring these skeptical tribes together would have to be able to combine political activism with an irony as thick as David Letterman's. They...
Along with Sen. Connie Mack (R-Fla.) and Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.), Chafee recently introduced legislation designed to induce industries to reduce their use of greenhouse gas pollutants...