Word: oskar
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...YACHTING Richard Clarke, Toronto Deirdre Crampton, Toronto John Curtis, Kingston, Ont. Nikola Girke, Vancouver Oskar Johansson, Oakville, Ont. Chantal Leger, Senneville, Que. Bernard Luttmer, Pickering, Ont. Ross Macdonald, Vancouver Jen Provan, Toronto Lisa Ross, Lunenburg, N.S. Mike Wolfs, Port Credit...
...Christ couldn't seem farther apart. Gibson's film is accused of fanning hatred against the Jews; Spielberg's, which won the Best Picture Oscar and six others in 1994, dramatizes the toxic effects of that hatred, and the ability of one man--the gentile factory owner Oskar Schindler--to save 1,200 Jews in Poland during the Nazi Occupation. The two movies are kin, though, as serious, violent historical dramas made against great odds--and as personal testaments that, their directors have said, transformed them as artists and men. On the new DVD of Schindler's List (Universal Video...
...mistake was not adequately explaining his reform ideas. But his bigger mistake was breaking his promise of no new taxes in the election campaign; when he went back on his word, voters punished him. Schröder still faces heavy criticism from his party's left wing, led by Oskar Lafontaine, who resigned as Finance Minister during Schröder's first term due to - you guessed it - disagreement over the need for reforms. Lafontaine argues that the SPD was defeated because it was not socialist enough. "It's called neoliberalism wrapped in red cotton wool," Lafontaine wrote...
...spent the rest of his life broke, hopping from job to job until he died in obscurity in 1986. Since then, a Sugihara revival has taken hold in Japan, where he is now the subject of school lessons, statues and books. He has become Japan's very own Oskar Schindler...
...Kirkus is deeply moved by "In the Beginning was the Ghetto: 890 Days in Lodz" by Oskar Rosenfeld, translated by Brigitte Goldstein (Northwestern; November), giving it a starred review. "'Who in future times will believe that human beings fought each other over a potato?' So asks this utterly unsentimental, open-eyed, harrowing portrait of ghetto life during the Holocaust...Rosenfeld was a modestly successful writer of novels and novellas when the Nazi Anschluss forced him to flee to Prague. Following the German conquest of Czechoslovakia, he was transported to the ghetto of Lodz, Poland, where he was put to work...