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...addition to the speed limit idea, the party voted to put the brakes on several economic reforms introduced by Merkel's predecessor, Gerhard Schroeder. The party called for the introduction of a minimum wage, for example, and the expansion of the period of eligibility for unemployment benefits for workers over the age of 50 - from 12 to 24 months. The party also urged a rethink of the government plan to partially privatize the national train company, Deutsche-Bahn, next year in a policy that has thrown the multibillion-euro deal into question. Merkel even came in for criticism from...
...Ahmadinejad to lay a wreath in honor of all the 9/11 victims killed by Islamic fanatics? What kind of impact would his gesture have had on dogmatic, anti-Western Muslims? Maybe New Yorkers should have waved the flag of peace first and waited to see what might happen. Bernhard Schroeder, Freiburg, Germany...
...satisfy anyone with an itch to travel to distant lands and the darkest places of the soul. Werner Herzog journeys to Antarctica for Encounters at the End of the World. Kevin Macdonald's My Enemy's Enemy considers the life and crimes of Nazi butcher Klaus Barbie. Barbet Schroeder's Terror's Advocate is a fascinatingly equivocal study of Jacques Vergès, who defended Barbie and many of last century's most notorious figures...
...Barbet Schroeder has directed movies with stars like Jeremy Irons, Sandra Bullock and Gérard Depardieu. But he has also made documentaries, including up-close studies of Idi Amin Dada and Koko the talking gorilla. His new film, Terror's Advocate, is a biopic of Jacques Vergès, the French lawyer who has defended many of the 20th century's most notorious miscreants, from Carlos the Jackal to the Nazi "Butcher of Lyon," Klaus Barbie. Asked if he would defend Hitler, Vergès replies, "I'd even defend Bush. Of course he'd have to admit...
...Part of the film's fascination, at least to those unfamiliar with Vergès, is its novelty; the story is fresh, epic, and challenging to all preconceptions about the use of violence for political purposes. To what extent, Schroeder asks, do individuals practice terrorism and countries practice military diplomacy, when both actions end in the deaths of dozens, or millions, of innocents? The filmmaker has no easy answers; no answers at all; and that moral dilemma hangs over the viewer of Terror's Advocate long after the specific horrors of A Mighty Heart will have receded into the mists...