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...poor selection of general managers--Jan Volk, Dave Gavitt, and M.L. Carr--led to a lack of organizational direction; the Celtics never fully committed to rebuilding. Had the Celtics traded Kevin McHale or Robert Parish--as the Lakers traded A.C. Green and released Byron Scott--for younger players on the upside of their careers, Boston's current situation would be different...
...dismissal was welcomed by Dutroux's lawyer, who called the move "infinite wisdom" it has shaken confidence in Belgium's legal system. Already undermined by accusations that the investigation was badly bungled before Conerotte took over, the legal apparatus is also under attack by newspapers like the daily Het Volk, which ran the headline "Powerless Anger" over a story on the case. -->
...ills. For instance, the church-inspired vision of Jews as "Christ killers" fueled countless pogroms over the centuries. Thus, in Goldhagen's view, the Final Solution represented the logical fulfillment of ordinary Germans' own long-standing dreams. He quotes one 19th century anti-Semite as predicting that "the German Volk needs only to topple the Jews" in order to become "united and free...
...Rudolph sees it, the 3 million-strong Afrikaner volk inherited a glorious national legacy. "I received it as I received my mother's milk," he says. "I am a son of Africa. The graves of my people are here, and this is where my cradle stood...
...Afrikaner civil servants stream out of Pretoria heading for their middle- class suburbs, Rudolph is eager to make a move. It may not be much longer, he speculates, before South Africa descends into civil war. If De Klerk hands over power to the A.N.C., he predicts, the volk will fight. If the pro- apartheid Conservative Party defeats De Klerk in his reform referendum, then it will be the blacks who rise up. Either way, the Boers stand to lose whatever powers and privileges they enjoyed during the apartheid years. "Time has run out in our land," Rudolph says. "Now this...