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Joseph J. Vitti ‘10, who has let it all hang out for the show’s intermission show for three years now, said that Tuesday’s performance left him a bit more exposed than those in the past. Although the lights were supposed to shut off a second after his boxers were torn off, they stayed on a couple seconds too long, enough time for the audience to take everything...

Author: By Kathryn C. Reed, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hasty Pudding Reveals All | 2/27/2010 | See Source »

Germans, for their part, feel they've already paid enough. "A discussion about the past is not helpful at all to solve the problems facing us in Europe today," German Foreign Ministry spokesman Andreas Peschke told Reuters, pointing out that Germany has already paid billions to Greece in the form of official reparations for World War II as well as bilateral and European Union assistance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greece's Debt Crisis: Blaming Nazi Germany | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

...debt crisis has ignited a battle of words between Athens and Berlin, reopening old wounds and raising the specter of Nazism. As Greece struggles to avoid default, and Germans debate whether to bail out their spendthrift neighbor, the question of what, if anything, Germany owes Greece for the past has become a topic of bitter debate and angry mutterings in the southern European nation. The row began with a tongue-in-cheek magazine cover in the German magazine Focus. The Venus de Milo - known by Greeks as the Aphrodite for Milos (and considered by some to be part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greece's Debt Crisis: Blaming Nazi Germany | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

First, it showed just how far Sarkozy was prepared to go to "construct a new relation of confidence" with Rwanda by breaking with France's past position of irreproachability in the slaughter. Until now, the official French line has been that Paris reacted quickly to the crisis by leading a U.N.-sanctioned peacekeeping mission called Operation Turquoise to halt the killings. France has also flatly refuted claims by Tutsi militia leaders who took power in Rwanda after the genocide - and still form the basis of the Rwandan government - that French forces serving as advisers in the country in the early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France's Belated Mea Culpa on Rwanda | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

France's change of position is also an indication of how important Sarkozy views Rwanda in his efforts to radically revise French strategy toward Africa. For the past 40 years, Paris has dealt with its former African colonies under an interventionist policy called Françafrique, under which France propped up client regimes in Africa in order to maintain its political and business interests on the continent. Now Sarkozy is looking to loosen France's heavy political and military commitments in Africa and pass the responsibilities of maintaining security to a group of stable and reliable partners in the region...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France's Belated Mea Culpa on Rwanda | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

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