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...makes the book less readable, truncating any natural flow. Occasionally in all these switch-eroos the author gets lost. For example, in the midst of a third-person narrative, he writes, "It does seem almost toasty. The fire is crackling brightly..." Who finds the fire toasty? Frank? His wife, Jena? Although Kaplan might know, the reader certainly does...
Obviously, the move from big and bungling to small and snappy will not be painless. Even those Kombinate most likely to survive the rigors of a free market, such as optics manufacturer Zeiss-Ikon Jena, will have to cut their bloated payrolls. Officials in Bonn have estimated that the ranks of the East German jobless will grow from 26,000 today to an estimated 2 million (out of a work force of 8 million) by next year...
...Hegel, history "ended," in this sense, with Napoleon's triumph over the Prussian forces at Jena in 1806. That battle, to Hegel, marked the vindication by arms of the libertarian and egalitarian ideals of the French Revolution. True, Napoleon was eventually defeated and authoritarian monarchy restored. But Fukuyama approvingly cites the argument of a little-known French-Russian philosopher, Alexandre Kojeve, that Hegel was essentially correct. The reason: it was at Jena that the "vanguard" of humanity implemented the French Revolution's goals...
Simonis was indicted last Monday by a La Salle Parish grand jury on charges stemming from the sexual assault of a Jena, La., woman last September. Anxious to avoid a trial and the embarrassment it would cause his family, he pleaded guilty to armed robbery, aggravated burglary and unauthorized use of a stolen vehicle; he was sentenced to 231 years in prison without parole. Simonis and two other Lake Charles men, John Glass Dickinson III, 26, a pharmacist, and Frederick A. Boerman Jr., 27, a waiter and musician, were also indicted on charges connected with the double rapes...
...seem odd to put the cold war on a par with the Napoleonic Wars and the two World Wars. Where was its Jena, its Marne or its Stalingrad? But Louis Halle, a longtime State Department adviser under Presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower, and lately a professor of international studies in Geneva, contends in this cool, dispassionate study that the cold war was every bit as climactic and dramatic a power struggle as those bloody predecessors. What's more, says Halle, the cold war is over, though the conditions of conflict that bred it continue...