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Some commentators argue that just as West Germany had to live with the shame of the Nazi years, it is now the East's turn to expiate collective guilt. Margarete Mitscherlich, a Frankfurt psychoanalyst, rejects that equation. "The Stasi is not the Gestapo, and Honecker is not Hitler," she says. "Whatever one can say about the Stasi, we are not now confronted with Auschwitz as we were after Hitler." Another Frankfurt law professor, Erhard Denninger, agrees that comparisons with the Nazi era are inexact. "The Nuremberg trials dealt with crimes against humanity and genocide," he argues. "You can't charge...
...that would be a shame. The summit assembles what is effectively the world's Economic Security Council, comprising the leaders of the seven major industrial countries -- the U.S., France, Britain, West Germany, Canada, Italy and Japan -- plus the President of the European Commission. The end of the cold war should make this annual event more important than ever. Millions of people in the industrialized world see foreign business competitors as a greater threat to their security than alien armies...
...gentlemen who berated and bedeviled the cast of The Muppet Show from the cheap seats high above the stage were not, as erroneously reported in Beth L. Pinsker's "Lessons From Sesame Street" in the May 21 Crimson, "Waldorf and Mortimer." They were, in fact, named Statler and Waldorf. Shame, shame. Adam Lane...
...shame that Solzhenitsyn understood so little about me, my thoughts on emigration, human rights and other matters, and about the real Lusia and her true role in my life. Late in 1974 a German correspondent brought me a gift from Solzhenitsyn, a copy of The Oak and the Calf, with a warm and complimentary inscription from the author. I already knew what was in it, and when I saw the inscription, I couldn't help exclaiming, "Solzhenitsyn really offended me in this book...
...American's innovative brainpower will turn to designing products that enhance, rather than threaten, human lives. If inventors working for the military and space programs could create everything from bulletproof plastic to magnetic-resonance scanners, they could probably come up with consumer products that would put even Sony to shame...