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...they are already carded to gamble in the first place). Furthermore, the rest of the world does not seem to be following the trend set by the U.S. Many countries abroad have recently lowered the legal gambling age, including France, the Bahamas, and 12 of the German Länder. The U.S. should place a priority on being consistent—both within internally and with the world at large. The gambling age should be set nationally at 18. At 21, it is undermined by one’s ability to buy lottery tickets (in all states but Iowa), play...
...Wall,” the mammoth concert Roger Waters organized in celebration of German reunification. In May 1995, the regional parliament of Berlin, rejecting a proposal to retain the site as a monument, locked it and built houses for the representatives from the Bundesländer over it. A present-day visitor can walk by without having any idea of its significance...
WHEN MEMORY COMES by Saul Friedländer Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 186 pages...
...memoir that stirs these thoughts is muted in its anguish. The author, Saul Friedländer, 46, now an Israeli historian, was a child of seven in Czechoslovakia at the outset of the war. His parents were nonpracticing Jews, and the religion that Pavel, as he was called, knew most about as a boy was the Roman Catholicism of his beloved governess Vlasta. It was this happenstance, perhaps, that made it possible for him to endure the enormous change in his life that occurred when he was ten. The family fled to France in 1939, but by the summer...
...Uberfretndung [foreign saturation] is treason to our youth and the heritage of our forebears," rants a pamphlet trying to drum up a national referendum to oust the Ausländer. A secret organization that calls itself the Delta Group has threatened "subversive action with methods borrowed from the Fascists" to rid Switzerland of "undesirable foreign elements." Last week Genevois were being exhorted to vote against a "monstrous" city-council housing project for the personnel at the old League of Nations building, which "would lead to unbridled proliferation of foreign functionaries and their privileges...