Word: loewenheim
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...article published in two area newspapers, Francis L. Loewenheim--a professor at Rice University--charged that while this year's Commencement speaker, Richard von Weiszacker, is an eloquent voice of the need for modern Germany to bear responsibility for Nazi war crimes, he has distorted his father's own role in those atrocities...
...Loewenheim, the author of several books on Germany, said von Weizsacker assisted his father, Baron Ernst von Weizsacker, in authoring untruthful memoirs of the Baron's war years. The historian also said that the president--who served as his father's lawyer during the Nuremberg trials--claims to this day that his father was unaware of the existence of death camps in the face of what Loewenheim called overwhelming evidence to the contrary...
Some travelers have discovered ingenious (if timeconsuming) ways of profiting from lower fares. Rice University Historian Francis Loewenheim, who shuttles between Houston and his native Cincinnati, has found that he can save more than 50% by going via Newark, some 1,000 miles out of his way. People Express's Houston-Newark-Columbus fare runs from $85 to $109, compared with $265 for a one-way, undiscounted coach ticket from Houston to Cincinnati on Delta. It does not matter to Loewenheim that he has to finish his trip with a two-hour bus ride (cost: $18) from Columbus...