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...students? You reported on the financial-aid campaign that is supposed to integrate less privileged groups into the élite. But what about the biggest group of underprivileged people in Europe: women? I'm appalled by such gender discrimination in our supposedly progressive Europe of the 21st century! Maxi Schmeisser Bamberg, Germany Your reporting on Eton stated that the school "has for many Britons come to symbolize unfair privilege." That's certainly how I see it. The boys on the cover are emblematic of inherited social advantage, wealth and the injustice of England's class system. I'd guess that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eton Reinvents Itself | 7/11/2006 | See Source »

...Shut up!" One snarls, drawing back the bolt on his Schmeisser, "You're coming with us," I am just about to ask the tall one if he is my QRA advisor when a rifle butt crasher down on the back of my head...

Author: By Benjamini N. Smith, | Title: Broken Dreams | 5/17/1985 | See Source »

...dark suits slipped out, 9-mm. German-made Schmeisser burp-guns cradled in their arms, and crawled behind a hedge that ran only 20 feet from where the President sat. At 7:20 a string of firecrackers exploded somewhere in the neighborhood. "They are celebrating a birthday over there," a member of the Remón party remarked. Two minutes later bursts of machine-gun fire sprayed the box. Two men died instantly; Remón's heavy frame slumped to the floor, blood darkening his pleated white sport shirt. "That was no firecracker," he gasped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: Murder of a Strongman | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

...German officer gave an order to a tankman, who opened fire on the Americans with a pistol. Another German in an armored car methodically sprayed the hapless captives with a Schmeisser submachine gun. Some fell to the ground, dead or wounded. A few fell, shamming dead. After the submachine gun was silent, German noncoms walked among the fallen Americans, systematically shooting all who moved or moaned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Murder | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

...spread through the hills, towns and cities : a remarkable Croat named Tito was fighting the Germans. Yugoslavs from all classes and political parties joined him, including, last week, a son of Mihailovich. Young, strong women like Stana Tomashevich marched and fought like men. Their favorite weapon was the German Schmeisser machine pistol. Their favorite song was a haunting old air sung to these words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALKANS: Area of Decision | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

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