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...first time since leaving Hungary, I have a feeling of helpless frustration when listening to the leader of my country. I thought only dictators could afford to shamelessly lie to their people. I thought I had left all that behind 50 years ago. Peter Stangl Calvisson, France...
...first time since leaving Hungary, I have a feeling of helpless frustration when listening to the leader of my country. I thought only dictators could afford to shamelessly lie to their people. I thought I had left all that behind 50 years ago. Peter Stangl Calvisson, France To Withstand the Wind After reading about the damage that recent hurricanes have caused in Florida and other coastal states [Sept. 27], I think we need to set up stricter building codes in hurricane-prone areas. For decades, California has had earthquake-inspired codes that have undoubtedly saved Americans millions of dollars...
Teenage taste is notoriously fickle. To divine trends, designers at PBteen troll the malls and even the extreme-surfing shops. "You just dive into all those places. You watch teenagers," says product-development executive Sandra Stangl. BombayKids designers travel as far as India and China for ideas, but they also watch MTV. It's all very secretive. Ask about next year's colors, and Farley at BombayKids demurs, "We'd have to shoot you if we told...
...evil side, I see Franz Stangl. Stangl was an ordinary Viennese policeman, a church-goer and family man, who, at the time of the Anschluss in 1938, was recruited by the Nazis to work as a "security" officer at a mental institution. He stepped onto the slippery slope when he began to organize humane little euthanasias for the very, very worst, most damaged, vegetable-like, no-quality-of-life-at-all mental cases (turnips, potatoes, a blessing, really, you understand, that they should be put out of their misery). What a slope was there. Stangl ended up as the kommandant...
...when I hear about euthanasia and Jack Kevorkian, sirens go off in my mind. Maybe I'm working with an old paradigm, like Munich, but I can't help it. I think of the case of Franz Stangl, a perfectly conventional Vienna policeman and good citizen who after the Anschluss became a security officer at hospitals for the aged, infirm and imbecilic, and helped--humanely at first, so they said--to ease the very worst cases, the utterly hopeless, the deformed and subhuman, toward a death that all reasonable people at the time thought would be the only decent thing...