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...terms of the rate freeze - crucially, you have to have been making your payments, but be unable to keep doing so after the rate rise - will be much smaller than that. Earlier this week, reports The Wall Street Journal, the director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, John Reich, estimated that "tens of thousands" could be helped...
...turn back modernity, get rid of rationality and its twin brother uncertainty." Recounting Germany's demented diversion of resources from the war effort to the extermination camps, right up to the end, De Heer concludes that Nazism's defining goal was the Holocaust, not all that Wagnerian nonsense about Reich and glory. Yet he concedes: "History is the lie people tell to give meaning to their pasts...
...want an invincible Germany!" intoned Schiffgens, the self-styled Raja of Germany. The flap those words created, with their echoes of the Third Reich, reveals both the deadly seriousness with which Germans view their wartime past and the gulf separating Lynch's new-age agenda from that of some hard-bitten Berliners with a more historical mind...
...neoconservatives, Islamic terrorists, and liberal humanists alike. It may seem counterintuitive to portray Hitler as a child of the Enlightenment, but Gray traces a connection between Hitler’s attempt to remake Germany by force and eliminate Jews who would hinder the triumphal arrival of the Third Reich and Enlightenment-era utopian thinking. Gray also argues that radical Islam follows in the same utopian tradition, uniting modern revolutionary idealism with Islamic roots. Indeed, because both encourage the use of force to achieve universal goals, Gray sees striking parallels between Christian millenialism and Islamic radicalism. Paradoxically, Gray also places secularism...
...Professor Reich was kind to volunteer and divide non-profits into those that are socially valuable and the rest. Alas, the fact that non-governmental organizations address issues such as climate change, access to health or government transparency—issues that every thriving society needs to treat seriously—does not seem to guide his rulings...