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...even bigger: Bukvaj feels that his 7-m-by-3-m room still doesn't provide enough space for his nativity scene. "If I only could tear this wall down," he laments. The residents of Trest, a sleepy Czech Republic town in the highlands halfway between Prague and Vienna, have been putting up elaborate nativity scenes in their homes for almost 200 years. Bukvaj's is just one of 15 homes that open up to the public from Dec. 25 to Feb. 2 each year. The healthy rivalry that exists among the often amateur wood-carvers is the source...
...Father Richard Neuhaus' Viewpoint [Nov. 27], in which he explained that Pope Benedict XVI is challenging Muslims to confront hard truths: Islam indeed has a menacing aspect, and the Pope finally addressed it directly. Since the defeat of the Turks in Vienna in 1683 and the subsequent decline of Muslim power, jihadists have dreamed of reconquering the Christian West. Islam has an expansion policy, which is that every Muslim has a duty to spread the religion in the name of the Prophet. Criticized as a myopic hard-liner when elected, Benedict might become the Pope of progress in Christian-Muslim...
DIED. Elliot Welles, 79, Vienna-born Holocaust survivor who, as longtime director of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League's task force on war criminals, became one of the most influential and relentless Nazi hunters in the U.S.; in New York City. Welles got his start seeking to avenge the murder of his mother, who had been executed in the woods near Riga, Latvia, where his family had recently been deported. Haunted by the face and name of the officer who ordered her transport, Welles, with the help of the Justice Department, tracked him down in Germany--where...
...were forced to sell for below-market value to escape Hitler's regime - made up more than half of the record $491 million total sale at Christie's in New York earlier this month. Last summer, Klimt's most famous painting, the "Golden Adele," which had hung in a Vienna museum for more than 60 years until being returned to a Los Angeles woman, fetched a record $135 million, the highest sum ever paid for a painting...
...less Christian today, Muslims still view it as the Christian West. For a thousand years, from the days of Muhammad in the 7th century, Islam enjoyed a run of triumphant conquest, interrupted only momentarily by the Christian Crusades. The time of conquest lasted until the failed siege of Vienna in 1683. After Vienna, and most dramatically under 19th and 20th century Western colonialism, Islam was sidelined from history--one of the main sources of the rage and resentment of today's jihadists...