Word: schroeder
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...Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life was written by Alice Schroeder, a onetime insurance-industry analyst who agreed at Buffett's request to chronicle his life. It's the first biography with which Buffett, 78, has cooperated...
...Schroeder writes at length about the women who would later fill the void and care for Buffett. Primary among them was his wife of 52 years, Susie. During their early years together, settled into family life with their three children in Omaha, Neb., Buffett worked voraciously; Susie "knew that the main thing he needed was to feel loved and never criticized." In public, people noticed how affectionate the two were - Warren liked to hold Susie in his lap - but in private, his wife kept hoping that once they had enough money (between $8 million and $10 million, she figured), Buffett...
...Schroeder is the author of a recent study about how little German youngsters today actually know about the GDR. He and his colleagues surveyed over 5,000 students aged between 15 and 17, and found that many, especially those actually living in areas that formed part of East Germany, have an extremely distorted view of the GDR. More than half of the respondents, for example, believe that the GDR was "not a dictatorship," and that the Stasi was an intelligence service like any other, deployed mostly against people of other countries rather than against its own citizens. The figures...
...What people remember is not the real GDR, but a fictitious country that never existed," says Schroeder, whose study caused a stir when it was published last month. "We have published many studies in the past, but we never had such a strong resonance," he says. "This issue is really stirring people up. Germany still seems to be more divided than people think. It's like an open wound and when you touch on it, it hurts...
...that a political system that many remember only for the pain and trauma it inflicted is a source of nostalgia for others? Schroeder is sure that parents and teachers are to blame. "The older people are aware of what the GDR really was like, but they don't say it," he says. "People generally tend to have a blurred vision of their own past lives. And the public and schools have failed to act as a counterbalance...