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...than others. Last October, the media came running when a University of Oklahoma professor, Stephen Norwood, announced that he had found evidence tying Harvard to Nazi Germany. Speaking at an academic conference at Boston University, Norwood declared that Harvard had warmly received Nazi officers in the 1930s, formally recognized German universities taken over by Hitler, and voiced support for the Third Reich...
...virtual showroom" instead, via their cell phones. That's what BMW did last month at the auto shows in Los Angeles and Detroit. With its redesigned 3-series sedan not yet ready for prime time (the vehicle is scheduled to hit U.S. showrooms in early summer), the German automaker handed out cards imprinted with a phone number. Prospective customers could then get a sneak peek at the new vehicle on their Web-enabled cell phones, complete with video clips. Says Glenn Field, ceo of Boomerang Media, which dreamed up the high-tech solution used by BMW: "It's like driving...
...traits that define him. As a journalist for the New Yorker, Mehta refused to be limited by his blindness; he traveled on assignments with guides who described how things and people looked, and he insisted on going everywhere and "seeing" everything. He wrote essays and books on Oxford philosophy, German theology, Gandhi's fight with his sexuality, the life of the writer R.K. Narayan, and Indira Gandhi's political fall and resurrection. His masterpiece is a long essay on Calcutta called "The City of Dreadful Night"?a jarring, clangorous, minor-key symphony, alive with the bustle and despair...
Just a couple of years ago, the vegetable patches of Anting, a hamlet west of Shanghai, yielded some of the sweetest spinach this side of the Yangtze River. Now, out of farmers' fields, an entire German-style town has sprouted, its brightly hued gingerbread homes modeled on those of Weimar in Germany. The new town, which will soon house some 30,000 distinctly un-German people, was designed by Albert Speer, son of Adolf Hitler's favorite architect. Forty kilometers away in Songjiang, barefoot migrant workers are building another massive satellite city, this time a vision of ye olde England...
...network hasn't stopped." A recent probe of Khan's lab found that 16 cylinders of uranium hexafluoride gas, a critical ingredient for uranium enrichment, are missing, sources close to the lab say. And a Pakistani official says some in Islamabad are vexed that the Swiss and German governments, among others, have failed to arrest individuals implicated by Khan's testimony...