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...politician or executive out of a job. "This period where uncovering Stasi involvement resulted in scandal is behind us," says social scientist Ralph Rytlewski of the Free University in Berlin. In an open letter, Runge said his Stasi ties were "nothing to be proud of." But if the shrug that greeted his story means Germany is through torturing itself over the past, it may also have to do with Runge's recent triumphs. In January, German trade magazine Horizont named him Media Manager of the Year. Ad pages in his titles - including German Vogue, GQ, and Vanity Fair - were...
...they consume. What is music in the recording era if not a commodity, albeit a vital and extremely rewarding one? If you diss a musician’s favorite classical piece, like Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, they’ll probably shrug and wave you off for being an idiot. But knock a person’s favorite band and it’s like you’ve knocked off a limb. I don’t think it’s a holdover from rock?...
...Crimson will travel to Yale on Saturday, where it will attempt to shrug off the demoralizing effects of this weekend’s loss and get its season back on track...
...phone number, and anyway Jimmy's doesn't have a fax machine, and are we sure we have the right Jimmy's? There's more than one, you know. Just like that the trail goes dead. "You try to get people involved in the story," Conlon says with a shrug, on his way back to the car. "Sometimes they care, sometimes they don't." It didn't work this time. In Blue Blood, it does...
...Once a committee has come up with a series of recommendations, there’s not an awful lot of room left for people who want to look at that differently. You can either vote something down, but that’s costly all around or you shrug and you say ‘isn’t that...