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...Kindly Ones is a grandly hallucinatory account of World War II from the point of view of an SS officer named Max Aue. Max is an intellectual and a loner with refined taste in music and literature. As a narrator he reminds one of a chillier, less funny Humbert Humbert. But Max's business isn't raping nymphets. It's racketing around the Third Reich, from Stalingrad to Auschwitz to Hitler's bunker, advancing the cause of Nazi genocide...
...offer of a professorship had been made over a year ago, according to Law School professor Richard H. Fallon, a member of the hiring committee, the Safra Center’s directorship was only offered this fall. While Lessig said he was excited to return to a grayer, chillier part of the country, he also said his family made the decision to move despite their attachment to the Bay Area. “My wife is sad to leave San Francisco because her whole life is out there, so you know that’s still difficult...
...French President Nicolas Sarkozy knew he was certain of glowing treatment in the U.S. by marketing himself as the anti-Jacques Chirac, that same reputation will earn him a chillier greeting during his state visit to Algeria, where his predecessor is still fondly remembered. Indeed Sarkozy's embrace of tougher anti-immigration policies have created considerable antipathy in Algeria - as has the President's refusal to apologize for crimes and abuses committed during France's colonial past. The resentment has even gotten personal: last week, apparently referring to Sarkozy's distant Jewish ancestry, the Algerian Veterans Affairs Minister Mohammed Cherif...
...tendency to become mired in politics and lost in lofty aims, operating too often behind closed doors and through isolated channels deep within University Hall. Such a strategy for advocacy has worked as long as administrators remained amenable to students’ desired change. But with University Hall becoming chillier, some Council members say the UC runs the risk of finding itself both disempowered and estranged from the students it was created to represent...
...asked to perform five days before the festival began in 2004 - not even enough time to put his name on the flyers - but his set caused a stir amongst the assembled critics. After being snapped up by a U.K.-based record label, Kane went from the Sahara to the chillier climes of Scotland to record Sigil...