Word: schwarze
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Busy Nalewki Street in Warsaw where the street vendors once hawked bajgels on sticks was empty, smashed flat. For the audiences that used to crowd the little Ruski Teatr in Riga there would be no more after-theatre suppers in the warm and friendly Café Schwarz. Wilno's Niemiecka and Tatarska Streets, once thronged by students of Talmudic learning, were empty. Gaon Street, named for Gaon Rabbi Elijah, the 18th-Century miracle-working rabbi of Wilno, was deserted...
...have built an award-winning robot—but these kids can.Through Citizen Schools, a Boston-based non-profit enrichment program, middle school students have the chance to participate in interactive apprenticeships that immerse them in a variety of professional and academic fields.Founded over a decade ago by Eric Schwarz and Ned Rimer, alumni of the Graduate School of Education (GSE), the program currently mobilizes teams of volunteers from at least three of Harvard’s graduate schools to conduct academic apprenticeships.Local professionals and community leaders also team up with the young students to work on projects ranging from...
...DIED. Andre Schwarz-Bart, 78, French author; in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe. His greatest work, The Last of the Just, traced one Jewish family's history from the Crusades to the death camps at Auschwitz. The novel-inspired by the murder of Schwarz-Bart's entire Polish-Jewish family by the Nazis-swas awarded France's highest literary award, the Prix Goncourt...
...group of Western countries that has overseen Bosnia since 1995 is scheduled to scale back its authority next year, and although it will hand over duties to the E.U., the scope of those duties may be sharply reduced. "There is a lot of fear," Bosnia's High Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling told Time recently in Sarajevo. "People remember the same rhetoric from the early 1990s. And that ended in war. There is risk of it going too far." While he and other diplomats say a return to war is unlikely, Pecanin is less sanguine: for the first time since...
...sacked and hundreds of politicians barred from office for breaking the rules and threatening the peaceful development of a multiethnic country. But now the U.S. and other Western countries plan to hand over responsibility for Bosnia to a European Union representative, possibly with strictly limited powers, by next July. Schwarz-Schilling, who succeeded Britain's Paddy Ashdown in the office earlier this year, has already adopted a more cautious approach than his predecessors. Bosnia's politicians need to "face the consequences of their own mistakes," he explained to Time, noting that a final call on whether...