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...evildoers in the Third Reich couldn't all have been hissing, predatory, nutsy Nazis; they needed the complicity, passive or active, of the "good Germans." That notion spurred Taylor's excellent 1981 play, with Alan Howard as Halder, a liberal professor who is made complicit in the atrocities of the regime through promotions, seduction and his own laissez-faire cowardice. Casting a flinty hero type like Mortensen in the role of a moral weakling seems inspired, but the movie isn't. Its attention to period detail and emotional nuance is lax, plodding, lacking either the grinding power of inevitability...
...April 18, 1945, with the Third Reich on the verge of collapse, Army Lieutenant Michael Daly was leading his company through Nuremberg, Germany, when it encountered machine-gun fire. Shielding his men, Daly crept forward alone and single-handedly vanquished 15 German troops in four separate firefights. For these acts of heroism, Daly was awarded the Medal of Honor, the military's highest decoration. Daly also earned three Silver Stars, two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star during his service...
...then, on July 28, Barack Obama held an economic summit with his covey of advisers - people like Bob Rubin, Larry Summers, Warren Buffett, Bob Reich; experts who seemed a sedimentary layer more recent than McCain's crowd but still more a part of the past than of the future. They had cleaned up the Reagan-era mess. They had actually balanced the budget and created a surplus. They had - contra voodoo - raised taxes and yet produced an economic boom. There was a fair amount of argument behind closed doors, I'm told, between the two groups that sparred...
...parts and products. Nowhere is hollowing out more controversial than in the auto industry. Today some 15% of the parts in U.S.-built cars, ranging from engines to transmissions, are made abroad, and a United Auto Workers' study projects that the percentage will rise to 28% by 1995. Robert Reich, a political economist at Harvard and author of The Next American Frontier, is an outspoken critic of this development. Says he: ''If American workers get stuck assembling and distributing sophisticated gadgetry from Japan and elsewhere, they are not building world-class skills.'' The ultimate price for industrial obsolescence...
...that described the event as "a depraved Nazi-style orgy in a torture dungeon." Mosley's wife of 48 years learned of her husband's sexual predilections for the first time, Formula One racers and sponsors called for his resignation, and Mosley faced accusations of finding titillation in Third Reich scenarios - a particularly piquant charge since his father, Oswald, was Britain's top Nazi sympathizer...