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...Peter Reich, an artist and father of three, has lived and worked right next to the Gowanus since 1983. Charged with maintaining his apartment building's basement boiler, he sometimes wades through the water that rushes in during rainstorms. "It's nice to have an enclave to hang out in that no one wants to develop," says Reich. "We're still pioneers...
...revelations contributed much to the burgeoning discourse of human rights, the movement would not gain momentum until the Interwar years and beyond, as a product of the agonized transitions to independence made by many former colonies, and, of course, the fallout from the nakedly imperialist ambitions of the Third Reich...
...film – he later amends that statement. As the story progresses, Stölzl shows the viewer how the political agenda of 1936 Germany exploited the myth of “heroic alpinism” by transforming it into a political catchphrase. In the eyes of the Reich, mountains, as much as people and countries, are there to be conquered. The sincerity of Andi and Toni’s passion for mountain climbing becomes something to be observed, dissected and sold as propaganda by the reporter Arau, from his comfortable vantage point in a luxury hotel that overlooks...
...Afghanistan is not nearly as vital to America's global interests as World War II was - and the Taliban's tyranny pales in comparison to that of the Third Reich. But while it's too simplistic to focus solely on the moral imperatives of the Afghan campaign, it would be just as shortsighted for Obama to ignore them altogether. History shows that Americans are far more willing to support a war that they believe is worthy of their ideals. If Obama hopes to rally the American people behind his strategy, his speech needs to convince them that...
...torch relay - and you might be incensed to learn that its roots lie in Nazi Germany. Carl Diem, the secretary-general of the 1936 Berlin Games, pitched the event as a way to infuse the Games with pageantry and buff the mythic image of the Third Reich. That year, on its way from Greece to Germany, the flame passed through Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria and Czechoslovakia - all of which would be annexed or occupied within a few years. (See a timeline of the 2008 Olympic-torch relay...