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Theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer made his way to America from Nazi Germany at the outbreak of World War II but then decided to return to his country to join the Resistance. He participated in a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler, and was caught, jailed and hanged. Bonhoeffer addressed this question of knowing with the example of a rose. He said that science allows us to grasp nearly everything about the composition of a rose because we have learned so much about pollination, photosynthesis and so forth. And yet, he said, once we have done all that analysis, we still ask, What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God Is Not On My Side. Or Yours | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

...subconsciously plagiarizing" the old Chiffons hit He's So Fine in his melody for My Sweet Lord. In 1991, he brought a seven-figure defamation-of-character suit when the tabloid the Globe published a story calling him a "Big Nazi Fan." And in 1996 he won an $11.6 million judgment against his former business partner in HandMade films, Denis O'Brien, for not assuming his agreed-upon share of the company's debt. That same year Harrison asked authorities to investigate a series of death threats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: His Magical, Mystical Tour: GEORGE HARRISON (1943-2001) | 12/10/2001 | See Source »

...subconsciously plagiarizing" the old Chiffons hit He's So Fine in his melody for My Sweet Lord. In 1991, he brought a seven-figure defamation-of-character suit when the tabloid the Globe published a story calling him a "Big Nazi Fan." And in 1996 he won an $11.6 million judgment against his former business partner in HandMade films, Denis O'Brien, for not assuming his agreed-upon share of the company's debt. That same year Harrison asked authorities to investigate a series of death threats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: His Magical, Mystical Tour | 12/10/2001 | See Source »

Schor’s interest in French literature began early. Her parents, both artists and refugees from Nazi persecution in Poland, came to the United States in 1941. Schor was born two years later in New York City, where her parents enrolled her in a French private school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Harvard French Professor Dies | 12/10/2001 | See Source »

...American armies have used psyops since the Revolutionary War (leaflets were passed out to British soldiers at the battle of Bunker Hill promising free land if they defected). It has a reputation as a black art, the stuff of Tokyo Rose and Nazi propaganda, but today's psywarriors act more like Madison Avenue ad executives - except they wear combat fatigues and jump out of planes. Four psyops specialists, for example, parachuted in with Army Rangers who raided a Taliban compound and air base Oct. 19; they heralded the arrival of U.S. forces by spreading leaflets with the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Using Psywar Against the Taliban | 12/10/2001 | See Source »

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