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That Anne Frank is remembered at all can be attributed to Nazi priorities: first, round up Jews; next, confiscate their valuables. Books and personal scribblings were optional. That is what happened on Aug. 4, 1944 when, on a tip, SS Oberscharfuhrer Karl Josef Silberbauer and his men broke into the annex behind Otto Frank's foodstuffs firm at 263 Prinsengracht in Amsterdam. The raiders arrested the Franks and four others who shared their secret quarters. Furniture and salable items were removed...
GIMME A HAND Tip O'Neill famously said that all politics is local. Proving that point, Somerville mayor Michael Capuano [4] won the Democratic primary for O'Neill's old House seat (once also held by J.F.K.), swaying voters with aggressive campaigning. That tactic was better than that of his closest competition, former Boston mayor and Vatican ambassador Ray Flynn, who showed pictures of himself with the Pope and Mother Teresa...
Voters in this traditionally liberal district are not only choosing a Congressional representative; they are granting membership to a select club that includes both John F. Kennedy '40 and former Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill. Of the 10 Democrats in this tight race, George Bachrach most deserves a chance to join that club...
This team's wild card may be its 12 freshmenand sophomores, who could potentially tip thebalance in the Ivies...
...then at 4[cents] on the dollar we could expect an $80 billion drop in annual consumer spending, or about 1% of the total U.S. economy. While that alone is not enough to stop the economy from growing, economists say, it could combine with the global currency crisis to tip the U.S. into recession later this year or in early...