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...D.D.R.'s legacy. In recent years, films like 2003's Good Bye Lenin!, a wry telling of reunification's effects on an East German family, have captured the imaginations of fashionable urbanites. Others have professed an occasionally ironic love for old East German aesthetics - communist-era branding, old Wartburg and Trabant cars, and vintage Praktika cameras. Rather less flippantly, the current recession has prompted mostly elderly diehards to recall the days of secure employment and income equality with fondness. Richard Stratenschulte of Dresden's Stadtmuseum says that some of the older generation occasionally look to the past because "they...
...bringing the country together and to The Sopranos showing that tough guys can hug too. More recently, the hit show Entourage prompted fans to "hug it out, bitch" (a tagline now immortalized on T shirts). "I'd always welcome a hug," says Aaron Schutte, a senior at Iowa's Wartburg College and founder of the 2,500-member Facebook group I Love a Good...
...Pops concert tonight, which is Swedish night, the following program will be played: Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburg, from "Tannhauser" Wagner Overture to "Poet and Peasant" Supre Prelude in C-sharp minor Rachmaninov Fantasia, "Aida" Verdi Suite, "Sigurd Jersaliar" Grieg a. In the Hall of the King b. Festival Marea Saeterjentens Sondag (Solitude on the Mountain) Bull Svendsell Swedish Wedding March Soderman Second Norwegian Rhapsody Svendsen Finlandia, Symphonic Poem Sibelius Humeresque Tehaikovsky-Jacchia Waltz "On the Beautiful Blue Danube" Strauss
...bluntness tripped her up when she applied for a generous scholarship to Wartburg College in nearby Waverly, Iowa, a liberal-arts four-year institution founded by a Lutheran pastor, where German Lutherans like Rowley's parents sent their working-class kids. One of several finalists for the Regents Scholarship, a four-year ride, she answered honestly when the panel asked her about her major. "I haven't thought much about it. I'm keeping it open," she said. The students who eventually won declared they planned to be missionaries, doctors and lawyers. "I tracked them," she says. "And within...
BORN: July 14, 1948, Hampton EDUCATION: Wartburg College, 1967; Iowa State U, 1967-1970 FAMILY: Wife, Kathy; three children RELIGION: Lutheran MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Seed-company executive POLITICAL CAREER: Franklin County Republican chairman, 1984-91; U.S. House, 1994- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 174, Sioux City...