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...Indeed, terrorism has moved on since the RAF's class-struggle attacks. For all its viciousness, the RAF was not out to indiscriminately kill large numbers of civilians. But neither were its members the high-minded revolutionaries their admirers wanted them to be. Bettina Röhl, who recently wrote an acclaimed biography of her mother, Ulrike Meinhof, argues that Germany "has a problem" with the RAF. "Our society needs to stop turning them into stars," she told Time. Instead, she said, it needs to "treat the RAF rationally, as 'normal' criminals." For Röhl, younger Germans' inclination...
...possesses. "So much of what we do is just common sense," he says. Rubin co-founded Def Jam Records with Russell Simmons out of his New York University dorm room in 1984 and had a huge influence on the early history of rap (that's him as DJ Double R on the Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill), but his formative experience as a producer came during a long-ago session with the Bangles. "Just before recording, one of the girls completely broke down," Rubin recalls. "She said, 'I don't think I can do this. I've never played...
Foreign investors are lured west by the interior's lower costs--salaries for highly skilled college graduates in Chengdu are about 30% lower than in Shanghai--as well as tax breaks and other juicy incentives. After Motorola opened a software R&D center in Chengdu in 2001, the city government built the company a special building, complete with a rooftop patio...
Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles wrote in an e-mail that the full Faculty would probably discuss the recommendations at its regular meeting on Tuesday, with the first vote on the report coming as early as next month...
...Staff writer Vincent R. Oletu can be reached at voletu@fas.harvard.edu...