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...annual reprint series for the next twenty years or so. Famous for characters who age in real time, like Walt, the dedicated bachelor and his adopted son Skeezix, the strip amounts to a daily diary of an American family as it goes through the depression, WWII, the post-war boom and beyond. This first volume features many car gags, but they soon give way to King's fascination with the country life as Walt, Skeezix and the Alley gang go for a trip to Yellowstone. Every day they pass through a real town, with its name duly noted...
...Post-War: A History of Europe since 1945 By Tony Judt 878 pages
...closest the administration has come to conceding it fumbled its handling of post-war Iraq. Bush's action effectively gives the State Department control over an area that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his minions ran in post-war Iraq. But before nightfall Thursday, Rumsfeld was fighting back. "I think we ought to try to avoid the nation-building concept," the defense chief told a Pentagon audience. "We ought to think of it as creating an environment that is hospitable for those people to be able to build their own nation and to fashion it in a way that fits...
...time, an estimated 1 million Romanians were imprisoned in dire conditions or engaged in often deadly slave labor, digging out the Danube-Black Sea Canal. But Judt also gives the intellectuals credit when they did get it right. He considers Dec. 28, 1973, to be "a symbolic moment" when "post-war Europe's self-understanding turned." That was the date when Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's exposé of communist repression, The Gulag Archipelago, was published. Once that shocking indictment of the Soviet system had worked its way into the general consciousness of Europe, Judt suggests, the West reached a consensus that...
...DIED. AENNE BURDA, 96, founder of the Burda-Moden publishing house and one of post-war Germany's most prominent businesswomen; in Offenburg, Germany. Born Anna Magdalene Lemminger, she married printer Franz Burda in 1931. The first issue of Burda-Moden appeared in 1950, bringing high fashion to the public and later offering clothing patterns so women could make their own fashionable attire. The publishing house, which later expanded to include titles such as entertainment magazine Bunte and the newsweekly Focus, is now one of Germany's biggest conglomerates; the company has been rechristened Hubert Burda Media after Burda...