December 2011
50 posts
“Personality does matter,” said Michael Dee, a... →
“I have one very well behaved cat (no scratching of furniture). I am quiet,...”
“You can’t do that,” he told her flatly when she... →
A passage about the difficulty that people with autism have reading facial expressions reminded her of being mocked by a friend at age 5 with whom she had agreed to draw “angry ghosts.” The friend’s ghost had zigzag lines for scowling lips and a knitted brow. Kirsten, unsure how to depict anger, had drawn a blank-faced ghost with a dialogue box above its head that read “Grrr.”
Until two years ago, the only picture the C.I.A.... →
In 1984, a few years after “yuppie” was coined, I... →
During the gathering, Mr. Riopelle said, Mr. James... →
SPIEGEL: Germany has just discovered that it is home to active right-wing terrorism. Were these individuals outside of society?
Heitmeyer: I’m appalled that many, especially in the political establishment, act as if we were dealing with a few outsiders in an otherwise intact and humane society. But it isn’t quite that easy to distinguish between good and evil. The terrorists (Uwe)...
I’m wondering when I should pop my collar. Not... →
Elizabeth, our 85-year-old monarch, who had thus... →
In a recent interview backstage at the Hammersmith... →
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In Germany, on the other hand, elegance and... →
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He is an idealist in the sense that an American is... →
It is conventional wisdom that sexual predators... →
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Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, who played on Germany’s... →
she responded that she liked that my husband spoke... →
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Hamburg Declaration regarding intellectual... →
European Publisher’s Council (2009)
He was six-foot-six, a gargantuan man who still... →
Every week, somebody in Germany is attacked by... →
The witness went on to say that they argued over whether the term “nigger slut” or the sentence “I’ll kill your nigger child” were sufficiently racist. The witness said that this made it possible to keep 135 cases out of the statistics in Saxony-Anhalt alone.
In 2005, while on the London set of “V for... →
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Some Memorable Snips from "Eichmann in Jerusalem:...
Good can be radical; evil can never be radical, it can only be extreme, for it possesses neither depth nor any demonic dimension yet and this is its horror!-it can spread like a fungus over the surface of the earth and lay waste the entire world. ========== he was a joiner, and May 8, 1945, the official date of Germany’s defeat, was significant for him mainly because it then dawned upon him that...
It wasn’t clear if this was a power play on his... →
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