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...Germany is not the United States, the Germans have much to fear from Nazi propaganda. But book burning has no place in a democracy. Moreover, for a university to revoke its degrees because of the beliefs of the holder strikes a heavy blow at intellectual freedom. Yet few could mourn the disappearance of Dr. Staeglich's book from the face of the earth--that is why the case is so difficult. But that is also why it is so important. Making distinctions between acceptable and unacceptable ideas is a dangerous task. The Nazis themselves taught the world that freedoms...
...year after the invasion, the helpers mourn a life gone forever...
...such a death, with its eerily obvious parallels, would be too pat, too sentimental in its pessimism for this icy-eyed film maker. He was obsessed with the morality of social ambition, but he preserved those obsessions in a medium, and an oeuvre, that should outlive all those who mourn his death. The camera is stilled. The projector keeps clicking. The burnout burns bright. -By Richard Corliss
...Muslim feast day of Id al Fitr, marking the end of the monthlong Ramadan fast. As the first light of day fell over West Beirut, families gathered in the city's cemeteries to mourn their dead. Some people quietly prayed and read the Koran beside older graves marked by marble slabs and beribboned arbors. Others wept beside the many fresh mounds of dirt, marked only by cinder blocks. Near by lay picks and shovels left by gravediggers the evening before. As a heavyset middle-aged woman dropped leafy sprigs on three fresh graves, she became hysterical and collapsed into...
...believed to be in hiding, awaiting the right moment to re-emerge and establish a purified Islamic government of justice. Because of the violent deaths of Ali and his son Husain, Shi'ites, unlike Sunnis, emphasize martyrdom and atonement. Every year the Shi'ites mourn Husain's death with public re-enactments of the occurrence and displays of self-flagellation. The same passion seems to have motivated hundreds of thousands of unarmed Iranians who faced down the Shah's troops in the streets of Tehran in 1978 and 1979. Khomeini, no doubt, is counting on that...