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...ninth, I headed home early in the evening and went to bed at 9 so I would be refreshed the next morning. We had already heard a few days before about the assassination of Ernst vom Rath, an official at the German embassy in Paris, killed by a Polish Jew, and it was a very bad omen. Everything went fine until about 2:30 in the morning, when we were awakened by a big crash. I got up and didn't know what might have happened. I lived in a large dormitory room with two friends. I thought that...
...border fighting began under cover of night. By dawn the Polish city of Dirschau was under siege, and it was official: Germany had attacked its neighbor. At 10 a.m. Hitler finally emerged from his fortress. He was wearing a new suit specially tailored for the occasion; it was lighter gray than the regular army uniform, with shiny gold buttons, a swastika and the Iron Cross medal he had won in the previous World War. As more than 1 million troops flooded into Poland and began taking civilian prisoners, Hitler drove to the Reichstag to appear before the Parliament. "I myself...
Then again, God may not have reckoned with a man of Libeskind's willingness to accommodate or his industrial-strength charm. In the years ahead, his tommy-gun speech, his more or less Polish accent and his hand-tooled cowboy boots will become as familiar to New Yorkers as Sarah Jessica Parker and her Manolo Blahniks. His intense campaigning for the project made him a target of criticism. But Libeskind has produced a design worth campaigning for. At its symbolic center is the "bathtub," the scorched and scoured pit in which the foundations of the Trade Center once stood, plus...
...latest studio release finds her softening her unique style of urban folk to take on a more contemplative tone. A collaboration with the musicians who once made up her touring band, Evolve bears the excitement, energy and spontaneity of a live album, but still enjoys the polish of a finely tuned studio production...
...easy to make friends in America, unlike back home,” says Samuel M. Kabue ’06, who is from Kenya. “They are so warm and open.” But another Sam (Palmer-Amaning ’05), this time of the Polish-Ghanaian variety (his mother is the former, for those who are wondering), jumps in to disagree. “With relationships you cannot be too open immediately with Americans—people get offended so easily here.” And there was a brief moment of international tranquility...