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...declare war as they recently did, authorizing the Marines to remain in Lebanon for at least another 18 months. International law is manifestly subordinate to U.S. imperialism's class interests. Students who have other illusions should recall the words spoken a century ago by the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck: "The great questions of our time will not be settled by resolutions and majority votes...but by blood and iron." Reagan's invasion of Grenada only underscores the fundamental truth of that statement...
...magazine runs high-society gossip (a few pieces on the Von Bulow trial), unusual "living on the edge" tales (one about a transexual Jewish American Princess), and voyeuristic features (a look at the behind-the-scenes goings on during the recent Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton play Private Lives.) But the magazine's contributing editors more often than not elevate the topics they address...
...book is dull, probably duller than most of the corporate contracts Law School grads do write--simply because his two and a half years working in the Washington courts were particularly dull. A street punk arrested for smoking on a bus inherently carries less drama than a Claus von Bulow on trial for murder. A Dershowitz arguing constitutional law before the Supreme Court is naturally more interesting than this rookie public defender arguing in Juvenile Court over a street fight. Street fights can be powerfully addressed but Kunen fails to make those he dealt with illuminating and infects them with...
...scope of Luther's work has made him the subject of endless reinterpretation. The Enlightenment treated him as the father of free thought, conveniently omitting his belief in a sovereign God who inspired an authoritative Bible. During the era of Otto von Bismarck a century ago, Luther was fashioned into a nationalistic symbol; 70 years later, Nazi propagandists claimed him as one of their own by citing his anti-Jewish polemics...
...Luther Bible sold massively in his lifetime and remains today the authorized German Protestant version. Before Luther's Bible was published, there was no standard German, just a profusion of dialects. "It was Luther," said Johann Gottfried von Herder, one of Goethe's mentors, "who has awakened and let loose the giant: the German language...