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Europe's Return Re: your cover story "Where Did Europe Go?" [March 8]: This is the question that many Greek citizens like myself have been asking every day over the past few months. We were the 10th member state to join the idealized union of nations, which was supposed to unite us all under our common values and culture (which were most of them, incidentally, inspired by Hellenic heritage) in order to fight together for a better and fairer world. Or that was the story they sold us anyway. Where is the E.U. now that the Greeks need it? Where...
...Graf's behavior raises a question. Her bizarre actions were well known by everyone in several commands. Since all officers must undergo a periodic evaluation of their performance by superiors, how did Graf continue to get top ratings? That question, it seems, must be asked of Graf's superiors. William Aylward Reston...
...Modern Art in New York City. Why focus on just four years? Because they were a moment when Matisse fundamentally reinvented painting. His works of that period - there are almost 120 in the show, including canvases, prints, drawings and sculptures - truly were radical inventions, new answers to the fundamental question of how to construct a picture. They were also, no surprise, considered ugly and incomprehensible in their time. Matisse once said he wanted viewers to feel about his art the way they would about "a comfortable chair" - an odd sentiment from a man whose art was more like an electric...
...Guttenberg's tenatitive utterance of the "W" word unleashed a heated debate in the German media. The Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper carried the headline "German Army in Afghanistan: At War," while the Süddeutsche newspaper praised the Defense Minister for his honesty, but posed the question: "What does war mean?" War is a tricky subject in Germany. According to the Defense Ministry, German soldiers are forbidden to engage in a "war of aggression" under the German constitution. Each foreign mission that includes the Bundeswehr - the German parliamentary army - is thus governed by a Bundestag mandate. In the case of Afghanistan...
...well that the Afghan mission is becoming deadlier. But on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle warned against a hasty withdrawal, saying: "If we were to retreat on the spur of the moment now, Afghanistan would return to being a shelter for world terrorism in a very short time." The question remains, though: How many more casualties will an increasingly skeptical German public tolerate...