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This World Cup has to succeed in the U.S., since the country's second Summer Olympics in as many decades is right around the corner. There is no Nazi party behind the scenes as in Munich, no superpower rivalry as in Moscow and Los Angeles. In fact, it's almost surprising that no groups, national or international, have taken the opportunity of the World Cup's international press coverage to make some major political statement...
Administrators say there was an element of appeasement in the foundation of the department. In his 1991 book The University: An Owner's Manual, Rosovsky likened the process, by which Afro-Am became a department to an "academic Munich"--a reference to the 1938 conference where the allied diplomats tried to appease Hitler...
...Bosnian government, an idea Clinton has frequently endorsed, the White House pressured Dole into backing off because most of the allies are opposed. The President expressed interest in a Russian proposal for a summit conference on Bosnia, which could prompt a settlement -- but that settlement could be a new Munich...
Administrators say there was an element of appeasement in the foundation of the department. In his 1991 book The University: An Owner's Manual, Rosovsky likened the process by which Afro-Am became a department to an "academic Munich"-- a reference to the 1938 conference where the allied diplomats tried to appease Hitler...
...whole world, a day when flags wave and people march and the grim realities of the past and, often, the present, are forgotten in a global surge of pride and unity. The reality has often been less inspiring -- in Hitler's Berlin in 1936, in the Munich beset by Palestinian terrorists in 1972, in the tit-for-tat cold war boycotts of 1980 and 1984, not to mention the myriad smaller moments when political bitterness or personal dishonor or random fate blemished the panorama of joyful striving. But whatever the misdeeds and mischances, the myth continually reasserts itself and endures...