Word: municheer
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...soft" on foreign policy issues. She was raised the daughter of a Czech diplomat, Joseph Korbel, and was forced to flee Czechoslovakia, first from the Nazis in 1938 and then later when the Communists came to power. The result, Albright said, is that "My mindset is Munich; most of my generation's was Vietnam." In a day and age where many political leaders are pushing for a more limited use of force, Albright is a fervent believer in using U.S. power overseas, assisting in the overthrow of repressive regimes and punishing human rights violators. She went...
BORN: July 9, 1940, Munich, Germany EDUCATION: City College of New York, B.S.E.E., 1970; New York U, M.S.E.E., 1974 FAMILY: Widowed; two children RELIGION: Lutheran MILITARY: Army, 1959-62 OCCUPATION: Direct-mail advertising POLITICAL CAREER: Candidate for the Allendale Borough Council, 1992; Democratic nominee for U.S. House, 1994 ADDRESS: 97 Broadway, Park Ridge...
...sexual display. But reconstructing their lost world is made difficult by the vagaries of fossil preservation and by the fact that these winged reptiles were evolutionary dead ends and left no descendants. Pterosaurs, for this reason, will forever remain wondrously strange. "In the living world," says Peter Wellnhofer of Munich's Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology and Historical Geology, "there's nothing really comparable to a pterosaur...
...Arab claim about the tunnel was, in fact, a big lie: modern propaganda with medieval resonance. In medieval times, massacres against Jews were often carried out as vengeance for some alleged Jewish desecration of Christianity. How would NPR have covered the blood-libel-inspired massacre of the Jews of Munich in 1286? "Leaders of the massacre claim that the Jews had killed Christian boys and used their blood for religious rituals"? For balance, I suppose, NPR would have added, "The Jews deny this...
...went on to Harvard as one of the exalted group of scholars called the Society of Fellows, joined the Navy by memorizing the eye charts after being rejected for poor vision, then returned to Harvard, where he taught the course on U.S. foreign policy. His lecture on Munich each year, in which he mimicked the players, drew standing-room crowds; he fervently conveyed his realist's belief in the dangers of appeasement and the role of military force in diplomacy...