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...Games were cancelled during both world wars—and neither did the second—Olympic boycotts have been a common diplomatic device. But the Olympics’ successes—Jesse Owens’ barrier-breaking gold medal performance during the 1936 Games in Nazi Germany is just one example—have shown that the Olympics truly can serve Coubertin’s vision. It is a travesty that in today’s climate of simmering international tension, the Olympics is losing its relevance; not even the pretence of using the Games for its original purpose...
...their outrage does not lack merit. Westerners can claim that we are totally free to print or write anything we wish. That people are offended is assumed to be less important than the right to express oneself in a free society. But am I free to print a pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic article in Germany? Of course not. Ronald Monsen Dhahran, Saudi Arabia...
...Phillips’ role of Jurgen Aregretzat is a little reminiscent of the Nazi fanatic Franz from Mel Brooks’ “The Producers,” whether it is because of the similarity in their military costumes, their heavy accents, or their defining obsessions with the Fuhrer. But in “Some Like it Yacht,” Phillips not only proves that he can hold his own with the best of Broadway as far as acting goes, but it is fair to say that his hilarious performance of “The Reich Track?...
Musical theater has a long history of successful productions that at first glance don't seem particularly fun or uplifting?consider Oliver!'s homeless orphans in Dickensian London, or The Sound of Music's Von Trapp family harmonizing its way out of Nazi-occupied Austria. But in Seoul, novice theater director Jung Sung San is pushing the concept of the unlikely musical to a new extreme. Jung, 36, currently has a cast in rehearsal for a musical about the prison camps of North Korea...
...Elected politicians should only be able to be removed by the voters or for breaking the law." KEN LIVINGSTONE, mayor of London, who was suspended for four weeks, beginning March 1, for comparing a Jewish reporter to a Nazi war criminal and then refusing to apologize...