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Themes, sometimes of immense moral complexity, thread through the scraps and diaries. There are more than enough glimpses of what might be called the sporting beast--for example, an SS officer's satanically playful execution of a young Jewish mother with a baby on her shoulder, to whom the officer had, a moment before, given a loaf of bread. Or this, recorded by an anonymous woman: "One day a small Jewish boy was killed on Biala Street as he attempted to pull a carrot lying in the gutter on the Aryan side through a hole in the fence. A German...
...plastic shape covered with riveted aluminum panels. The metal has even worked its way into fashion. Spanish design iconoclast Paco Rabanne made a 1968 minidress from aluminum rectangles held together with wire loops. He was so enchanted with the result that he announced he had abandoned his needle and thread for pliers and a blowtorch. The latest use for aluminum is in automobiles. New car designs from Audi and Jaguar use the lighter material instead of steel for body panels that reduce weight and thus fuel consumption. As designers explore other uses, recycled beer can handbags...
...arena, Wendy Guey—the 1996 National Spelling Bee Champion—posed the word “lisle” to Redd. “Could I have a definition please?” he asked, not recognizing the word as a small, tightly twisted thread usually made of long-staple cotton (duh). “L-I-E-L-E,” he guessed. “Actually,” Guey said, “that’s not right. But close...
...parties' leaders have also clashed. Qazi Hussain Ahmed from the Jamaat-e-Islami is a cultured, well-traveled cleric who speaks with the measured finality of a judge passing a grim sentence. Several of his new brethren, in contrast, are unquestionably flamboyant. Maulana Fazlur Rehman wears robes of golden thread and was dubbed "Maulana Diesel" after allegations were made?though never proven?that he was involved in a fuel scam. Maulana Samiul Haq earned the nickname "Sandwich Sammy" after being photographed (presumably by Pakistani intelligence officers) in an inventive position with several bedmates. "We have our differences, some of them...
...Google News is somewhat limited by the pool of publication it searches - and many of them appear to be obscure Canadian papers. The other downside is that it's easy to lose the thread of a story since the page is updated so frequently. For those interested in tracing a story back to the very first headline posted, you can click on "sort by date". But this typically returns a disappointing laundry list repetitive AP headlines from publications around the globe...