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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Cluny. Moreover, though it now includes 13 Roman Catholic members, Taizè was founded as a Protestant community in 1940. A Swiss theology student named Roger Schutz, then 25, came to France looking for a site for a Protestant experiment in monasticism. Schutz also wanted to help refugees from Nazism and thus chose the hamlet of Taizè, near France's German-occupied zone. There he and a few colleagues spent two years hiding Jews and others fleeing persecution...In the early 1960s, without invitation, a few youthful wanderers began to stop at the monastery to join in the simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 9/19/2005 | See Source »

...autobiography of the same title. Citing passages where MacLaine suggests that Machu Picchu and the giant desert drawings known as the Nazca Lines were made by visitors from outer space rather than by the Peruvians, the National Institute of Culture accused her of inadvertently aiding "neo-Nazism" to discredit the country's culture. MacLaine was dismayed. During filming, locals took to calling her La Grinka (a gringa who seeks to become an Inca), and at a press conference last week she sought to make amends: "I profoundly believe that Peru is the repository of a splendiferous culture. If there were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 24, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Edward Childs, a cook in Adams House and chief steward of Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union Local 26, said his reason for coming was simple—“to oppose Nazism...

Author: By Kristin E. Blagg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Join Protest of Neo-Nazi Rally | 5/9/2005 | See Source »

...thousands of returning pows were sent straight to the Gulag for the crime of being captured by the Germans. There's another kind of ambivalence about V-E day in those states that were once part of the Soviet Union or the Warsaw Pact; many viewed the defeat of Nazism as simply a change of occupier. "We cannot pretend that May 9 was a day of liberty and independence for Poland," said Donald Tusk, leader of Poland's center-right Platforma Obywatelska. "For Poland the fight against Hitlerism and communism ended only in 1989." Rather than V-E day, Poles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bittersweet Celebration | 5/1/2005 | See Source »

...Lake." The ultimate responsibility obviously lies with the young man who fired the guns, Jeff Weise. But because he was a boy growing up poor and from a shattered family, with a confused and bitter outlook on his racial heritage and no one to counter the myths of Nazism and racial hate groups, we have to admit that in some way society failed him, and nine other people paid the price. Because TIME brought up the devil, as if a supernatural being were to blame, the reader is tempted to discount all the social problems that contributed to the tragedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 25, 2005 | 4/17/2005 | See Source »

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