Word: nuremberg
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...hope to see Halley's comet the second time around. In 1910 our high school math teacher in my hometown, Nuremberg, Germany, took us to the medieval imperial castle, which overlooks the old city, and here we watched with awe the celestial phenomenon, never to be forgotten. Alfred J. Hopf Madison...
...farming and construction. Faced with the threat of job losses, unions have also recently agreed to contracts with lower unit labor costs for employers. "The rising jobs figures suggest that firms will hire staff if labor costs fall," says Michael Feil of the Institute of Labor Market Research in Nuremberg. The Institute expects job gains again this year. And there was another positive statistic last week: 395,000 job vacancies in the first two months of the year. Not enough to help 5.2 million unemployed, perhaps, but it's a start
...bare facts: Phyllis Adams Kirkland Jenkins was born into privilege on the East Side of Manhattan in 1923; came of age in a dazzling period for New York society; trod the boards as a young actress; reported on the Nuremberg trials of top Nazis; helped pioneer the daytime talk show; married a handsome actor and then an even handsomer designer of sets for stage and screen; gave unstintingly to Amnesty International and other worthy charities; left behind a loving, lovely family and a host of bereft friends...
...noon by the time I end up at the train station. When I left, the orange-labeled bottle had disappeared. But Sonja was pouring a glass of white wine for herself and the clay bust of Wagner glistened in the sun. My train speeds south to Nuremberg, and soon I am typing up my coverage of Bayreuth—opening hours, phone numbers and other small details. The morning is driven out of my head...
...Ghraib jailers claim they were only following military orders. But as the Nuremberg trials of the Nazis showed, that is not a justifiable excuse. No individual possessing even an ounce of humanity would execute such orders. But the American soldiers did. Bush would have us believe that those troops do not represent American values. Yet they do show a moral black hole in the American psyche. Oke G. Pamp Tweed, Canada...