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...humble world of cultural punditry. Her work abounds in self-contradictions. She is a girl almost without a sense of humor; yet she made her reputation with an article on the high frivolity of 'camp.' She is a part-time novelist [who writes] ... like a grim translation from the German: 'By literary genre,' she observes, 'I mean a body of work belonging to literature considered as an art and to which inherent standards of artistic excellence pertain.' She is the kind of girl who takes 33 talky pages to tell you that art 'must tend toward the pursuit of silence...
...troops are under attack every day from foreign fighters in Iraq. But just how many of those insurgents are coming from Europe? A string of recent arrests suggests that a small but determined band of extremists is exporting young Muslim men in Europe to Iraq for jihad. Last week, German authorities arrested two men in Mainz: one an Iraqi who police say is an al-Qaeda-trained militant and recruiter of local Muslim youths for the insurgency, the other a Palestinian who is allegedly one of his recruits. In Paris, police arrested 11 people they say were involved...
...years ago last week, the hatred that conceived it continued to erupt. The far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) walked out of the Saxon state parliament during a silence for Holocaust victims. "It is the common duty of all democrats to confront the disgusting propaganda of neo-Nazis," said German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, whose government has tried and failed to ban the party. The Interior Ministry is now formulating proposals to stop far-right groups from demonstrating near Holocaust memorials. This would nix the NPD's planned May rally at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate near the new memorial...
...what is most remarkable about that site, built by the German software giant SAP, is what's going on inside. SAP Labs' 1,400 employees in Bangalore form the company's largest research-and-development unit outside Germany. Instead of dumping its call-center work and low-end programming in Whitefield, SAP relies on the area's computer scientists and engineers to carry out its most critical activity. More than 10% of the patents filed by SAP originate in Bangalore, and the influx of Indian engineers is accelerating the adoption of English at SAP and loosening up its traditionally rigid...
Confronted by the chilly cone of imperial fascism 30 years later, did Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, cower by a warm fire? Hardly. We would all be speaking German today if old FDR—also a former Crimson president—had feared leaving the safety of Adams House for the Rocky Road of a three-front...