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...films in the series are linked by their time period, not by a shared genre. Lorre’s The Lost Man, his only directorial endeavor, is based on the true story of a Nazi scientist-turned-serial-killer. The film’s anti-hero, Dr. Rothe, is stalked by shadows and plagued by his past in a film that aligns itself with the expressionist oeuvres of Fritz Lang...

Author: By Jessica E. Gould, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: German Films Explore Postwar History | 3/14/2003 | See Source »

...Lost Man, Lorre’s character is a serial murderer and a Nazi, but he does not kill on behalf of the Party, and his victims are not Jewish. The film engages a guilty history, but it is the guilt of a lone psychopath rather than the guilt of an entire nation. Lorre suggests that Dr. Rothe’s transformation from an upstanding doctor to a murderer is linked to the political climate of the time, but the politics in the film are driven by wartime espionage, not by anti-Semitism...

Author: By Jessica E. Gould, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: German Films Explore Postwar History | 3/14/2003 | See Source »

...young and scared to be going over," says Rachael Mays of the Sleeping Dragon tattoo parlor. "They come in for their meat tags. You know, dog tags for the skin. Their name, rank, serial number, religion, blood type and gas-mask size. They want 'em in case they're blown in half. Then at least some part of them can come back to their folks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Have All the Young Men Gone? | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

...confusion may be cleared up as NASA continues its hunt for debris--particularly if it finds the first bits that fell from the ship. Shuttle tiles carry serial numbers that correspond to a particular part on the spacecraft's underside. The pieces on the ground thus form a sort of bread-crumb trail leading back to the area on the spacecraft where the problems began. Find the westernmost part, and you have pinpointed the trouble spot. "That would be very, very significant," says Dittemore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fragments of a Mystery | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

...Mindanao. And investigators now allege a link between the Mindanao camps and the Bali bomb plot. "Mindanao is where the Bali bombers tried to get weapons for other operations," says a member of the investigative team, who adds that documents found in the possession of Bali suspects listed serial numbers for weapons that were known to belong to the MILF. "For JI, Malaysia and Singapore are used primarily for financing and the Philippines for training. Indonesia is where they put everything into practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines' Terrorist Refuge | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

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