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...time, he finds work playing piano in a cafe. He barely escapes transport to a death camp. He becomes a slave laborer, then a fugitive, finally living in the ruins of a destroyed city. Always he maintains his silence. Never does he commit a heroic or rebellious act. His only obligation is to go on living, which is mostly a matter of chance, supplemented by his own cunning...
Even so, one of the monastery fathers, Alexei Polukarko, defended the effort to topple the Lowell tower, saying, “To transport the bells will be difficult, but if people can fly to Mars then it’s possible.” We hate to point this out, but people cannot, as of yet, fly to Mars. And if people could fly to Mars, it would be extremely expensive to do so. Similarly, we cannot, as of yet, get those bells out of their tower without tearing it apart. And if we could, it would be extremely expensive...
...eurozone's 12 countries. But behind the declarations of intent, big differences remain. France has increased its defense budget this fiscal year by 6%, while Germany is cutting back. Defense Minister Peter Struck last week announced that Germany would be drastically slashing its pledged orders of Airbus military transport planes and air-to-air missiles. France is cutting taxes, while Germany keeps piling on new ones. And fiscal coordination? Well, they can't tackle that task with credibility until they get their own budgets in order. Some 40 years ago, De Gaulle characterized France and Germany as two exhausted wrestlers...
...Visitors may find it hard to work up the same level of excitement over a functioning transport network. But together with a new system of traffic-thinning overpasses, the closure of smoke-belching factories and the forced conversion of thousands of gasoline-powered rickshaws into natural-gas ones, they, like residents, will discover that New Delhi is suddenly able to offer oases of, er, rest and tranquillity...
Lewis wrote that the administration is planning to prevent the transport of large quantities of alcohol to the next Yale Game Harvard hosts and that it will be thinking about how to restrict distribution to underage or “plainly intoxicated” individuals...