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...improved crowd. As the first overtime began, the cheering faithful ripped off their shirts and began yelling, heckling, and shouting as only the most ardent of fans could. It’s a sign of change: a women’s team—Columbia was the victim on Saturday—can be heckled the same as its men’s counterpart, and a band of naked men will get rowdy and rush the field just like it was a football championship. It may be hard to see, but if you look past the shirtless men and inappropriate...
...long time, we would put the perpetrator into the center, show pictures of horror and try to shock with numbers. It only recently occurred to me that if you don't look at the individual, you make him or her a victim a second time," one teacher in Berlin said after reviewing the archive. Foundation director Nachama agrees. "The commemoration of these events is no longer just about abstract history," he says. "It's about concrete events; the history of your street, the history of your neighborhood...
...most successful new projects involves lying small plaques in the ground in front of the former homes of Jewish Holocaust victims, each inscribed with a small biography and the circumstance of the victim's arrest and deportation. The plaques are called stolpersteine, or "stumbling blocks," and you see them all over Berlin. Some 17,000 have been placed across Europe. So while many of the survivors of Kristallnacht and the Holocaust that followed may not be alive for much longer, their suffering is not likely to be forgotten...
...helped found the company. "I kept asking myself: How is this possible? It almost didn't seem real." In one sense, it wasn't. Less than a year after Lepik and his fellow managers were honored for their entrepreneurial smarts, the company filed for bankruptcy - a victim of the property industry's implosion. Over coffee in an empty restaurant in the heart of Estonia's capital, Tallinn, Lepik laments that he's had to sell his house and two cars, and is contemplating going back to school to improve his English. The situation, he says, is "awful...
...fact that Spain has been the victim of jihadist terror - 191 people died in the Madrid commuter train bombings of March 11, 2004 - would also seem to work against bin Laden's favor. "Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden himself have signaled that Spain continues to be a target," says Jesus Nuñez, co-director and security expert at Madrid's Institute for Conflict and Humanitarian Action Studies. "That would suggest that Spain isn't going to receive his [son's] petition with...