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Some civil libertarians are worried that the appeals court ruling will lead to lawsuits against writers and publishers. Novels like The Godfather, works of history like The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, and even TV news shows contain graphic descriptions of murder, notes University of Illinois law professor Ronald Rotunda. "I wouldn't be surprised if energetic prosecutors in less enlightened jurisdictions take advantage of this decision." But Floyd Abrams, a lawyer who often defends the media, doubts the ruling can be applied much beyond manuals on how to kill. "This is a book," says Abrams, "that tests...
...Nazis' plunder of art was carried out on the express instructions of Adolf Hitler, a failed art student and amateur watercolorist before he turned to mass murder. Fond of Old Masters, Hitler dreamed of building a huge stock of cultural masterpieces in the Reich. Hermann Goring, head of the Luftwaffe and later Hitler's right-hand man, eventually assembled one of the largest private art collections in Europe. Many of those works were confiscated from Jews...
Ambrose's macro war is suitably conventional. Allied Commander Eisenhower was the right man in the right job; British Field Marshal Montgomery was an obstructionist and all-round pain in the keister; Patton was the best field general of the war, despite eugenic notions that were strictly Third Reich--he pulled the bravest men off of the front to preserve their bloodlines...
Prin--A. MacFarlane (A. Reich...
...Reich, an old friend, sees it differently. "She bounces back easily. She really does," he says. "Except in the one domain of trust." Nowhere does that show more than in her tortured relationship with the media. In the rare instances when she allows reporters on her plane or dines with them on the road, Hillary is charming and revealing. She is a wicked mimic, her repertoire ranging from witty stories of wandering the White House (she and Bill still haven't seen every room) to the migration patterns of screwworms. But the First Lady enforces an almost inviolable rule that...