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Harvard’s once small collection of film stills—movie frames studied by film historians—is slowly ballooning into one of the country’s ten largest, thanks to a gift from a pair of German collectors. Munich-based couple Lothar and Eva Just are now in the process of donating their estimated 800,000-piece collection to the Harvard Film Archive. So far, the HFA has received over 42,600 items in the collection, which will take an estimated five years to arrive and catalog, according to Film Conservator Elizabeth Coffey...
Like his predecessors, Kretschmer very likely "suffered from a severe personality disorder," says Lothar Adler from The Ecumenical Hainich Clinic in Muhlhausen, Thuringia. Adler is the author of "Amok - A Study" which was based on his analysis of almost 200 school shootings and other killing sprees. The psychiatrist, who was part of the post-Erfurt counseling team, explains that very often killers have pronounced narcissistic traits, problems in forming normal relationships and are easily offended. They also tend to have low frustration thresholds and can harbor grudges for long periods of time. Physiologically, Adler says, "they frequently also lack serotonin...
...became aware of a single case involving improper use of phone records. Assuming no laws had been broken, Telekom handled it as an internal matter. Then in April of this year, far-reaching evidence emerged of a broader, organized plot to spy on members of the supervisory board, including Lothar Schröder, a senior official of the Verdi service workers union; Wilhelm Wegner, the head of Telekom's works council; and possibly Thomas Mirow, deputy finance minister and the German government's representative on the Telekom supervisory board. "The supervisory board is actually supposed to oversee the company...
...Around the corner is the caf? Alois S., whose owner, a balding 48-year-old named Lothar Heer clad in a Grateful Dead t-shirt, says his original plan was to build a tapas bar. That was 2001, when his establishment stood alongside a playground bearing the scars of communist neglect. After fighting with sluggish city bureaucrats for a couple of years, Heer got permission to break open the walls and open a terrace out onto the playground. Then, he and some local parents formed a citizens group and applied for and were actually awarded some 20,000 euros...
...DIED. Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, 89, who, as a World War II reporter for the German navy, dutifully wrote pieces of wartime propaganda, then turned his experiences into a 1973 antiwar book, Das Boot (The Boat), which profoundly moved Germans and became a global best seller and a 1981 film; in Berlin...