Word: reiche
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...ever-expanding army of West Wing staffers now controls most of the levers of power. Most Cabinet secretaries merely take orders on questions of consequence, which is one reason why independent thinkers like Christine Todd Whitman haven't lasted long in the Bush Cabinet, and why the Clintonite Robert Reich wrote a book called "Locked in the Cabinet". It's also one reason why Bush installed former White House staffers at State, Justice and Homeland Security, although Tom Ridge quit in frustration once he realized his move from White House aide to Homeland Security secretary was a demotion in disguise...
...start of the war, the Nazis looted systematically, but as the Third Reich collapsed, they plunged into an anarchic free-for-all. Allied soldiers in Germany later found stashes of plundered art in a cavernous salt mine, in castles, piled to the eaves in churches, and in the private homes of Nazis. "For the Nazis, Paris was like an art toyland," says the Israel Museum's curator, Shlomit Steinberg. "Everything was free...
...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...