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...calling themselves the Red Army Faction (more commonly known outside Germany as the Baader-Meinhof gang), went on a killing spree in a fight against the establishment. "This is the story of our generation," says Stefan Aust, former editor of news magazine Der Spiegel and author of the book upon which film is based...
...films he works on and gets involved in every detail. While writing Baader Meinhof, Eichinger spent months researching the gang, reading original transcripts of interrogations and court proceedings as well as coded messages written by imprisoned members to their supporters outside. Much of the material comes from Aust's book and the original documents the author turned up in his own research. "In addition to the book, [Eichinger] read a lot of other material and kept asking people to get him more," says Aust...
...what does this mean for people who want to encourage genius? Gladwell concludes his book by saying the 10,000-hour rule shows that kids just need a chance to show how hard they can work; we need "a society that provides opportunities for all," he says. Well, sure. But he dismisses the idea that kids need higher IQs to achieve success, and that's just wishful thinking. As I argued here, we need to do more to recognize and not alienate high-IQ kids. Too often, principals hold them back with age-mates rather than letting them skip grades...
...number's association with Friday, however, didn't take hold until the 20th century. In 1907, eccentric Boston stockbroker Thomas Lawson published a book called Friday the Thirteenth, which told of an evil businessman's attempt to crash the stock market on the unluckiest day of the month. Thanks to an extensive ad campaign, the book sold well: nearly 28,000 copies within the first week. In 1916 the book was turned into a feature-length silent film...
Senator Judd Gregg ended his courtship with President Obama by resorting to one of the oldest lines in the book. "It's not about them," the New Hampshire fiscal conservative announced Thursday, describing the White House team. "It's about my own sense of who I am." All at once, politicos all over Washington had the same reaction: Yeah, right...