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...never repented - never saw the need to. Markus Wolf was so clever a spymaster that the fact he worked for East Germany, a repugnant regime that rightly disappeared into history's dustbin, never dented the massive ego that had driven his success. When he died Thursday at 83, quietly in his Berlin apartment, on the 17th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Wolf thought himself a victim of victor's justice that had denied him the esteem he deserved-and he took countless secrets to his grave...
...Alice K. Wolf, the state representative for the district that includes Harvard, and Democratic Congressman Michael E. Capuano, who represents Somerville, Cambridge, and other parts of Greater Boston, both faced only nominal opposition and won reelection handily...
...friends and colleagues is not a pleasant prospect. 'Human kind,' as T.S. Eliot wrote, 'cannot bear very much reality.' TRUTH TELLING MAKES IT POSSIBLE FOR PEOPLE TO COEXIST; A LITTLE LYING MAKES SUCH SOCIETY TOLERABLE. At what point does 'a little' become 'too much'? The nervous boy who cried 'Wolf!' in the admonitory tale told one lie too many and was eaten alive. The irony of this denouement, of course, is that when the boy met his fate, he was, at last, hollering the truth. This story demonstrates the creation of what is sometimes, and euphemistically, called 'a climate...
...first thing you should observe about the video for “Wolf Like Me”—with its combination of silent-era cinema expressionism, “Thriller”-era leather jackets, and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”-era choppy animation—is how strange and incongruous it seems; the second is how much sense that combination makes for a band whose sound rolls a barbershop quartet, a dance-floor DJ, and the Pixies into...
...Google into video distribution. So what's in it for the partners? For one, they get to avoid competing with Google, a good outcome particularly for companies without an alternative means of coaxing revenue out of their content. "It's easy to collaborate with Google," says MTV president Michael Wolf. "They move fast. We'd like to do even more with them...