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Alexander Solzhenitsyn was so elderly and melancholy that in 2008 he died. In the final years of his life, back in the homeland he had fought so hard to free from the oppression of the KGB, he came to a disappointing rapprochement with the new ruler of Russia, a former...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CELEBRITY LIST: Five Melancholy Elderly Literary Men | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

"Are you anti-Semitic?"- To Fox News anchor Sean Hannity during an on-air conversation about Obama's ties to Williams Ayers. Gibbs said that perhaps Hannity's association with a man who had made offensive comments in the past against Jews mean that Hannity himself held the same beliefs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robert Gibbs | 12/1/2008 | See Source »

“The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” seems a strangely pleasant name for a film about the Holocaust, and yet such paradox is consistent with the movie as a whole. Based on the novel by John Boyne, it reveals the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp...

Author: By April M. Van buren, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas' | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

The mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit, used the coming anniversary to repeat calls for the far-right National Democratic Party, which holds seats in several local parliaments, to be banned from German public life, as politicians across the country urge heightened vigilance against anti-Semitism. Some 800 anti-Semitic incidents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany Confronts Its Dark Past | 11/8/2008 | See Source »

The other elements of the President-elect's name are no less enchanting in these parts. Barack is a word of Semitic origin meaning "Blessing," and Obama, when written in Persian, transliterates into "He is with us." But it's not his name that has most Iranians I talked to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iranians Hope Obama Lives Up to His Name | 11/6/2008 | See Source »

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