Word: schiller
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...went beyond his willingness to kill without mercy. He did something civilization had not seen before. Genghis Khan operated in the context of the nomadic steppe, where pillaging villages was the norm. Hitler came out of the most civilized society on Earth, the land of Beethoven and Goethe and Schiller. He set out to kill people not for what they did but for who they were. Even Mao and Stalin were killing their "class enemies." Hitler killed a million Jewish babies just for existing...
...Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable, [but] as a member of a crowd he at once becomes a blockhead." Schiller said that. Why does it happen? The "apocalypse now" theory has to do with the odd historical fact that people get exceptionally nervous as they near the end of any era. There were witch-hunts in the 1690s, episodes of hysteria in the 1890s. In our own time, one has only to reach back a couple of years to recall large-scale group fears induced by mention of the ozone layer, or by pandemics like toxic...
...just shy of Maryland's statewide average. Yet the money produced a student body that failed to meet the most rudimentary state standards, as measured in a battery of tests that gauge functional skills in reading, math, writing and citizenship. The system's interim CEO, Robert Schiller, has called the city's schools "academically bankrupt." Within the district many administrators and teachers blame this failure on the fact that Baltimore, despite the extra costs of running an urban school system, spends less money per pupil than surrounding suburban counties do, echoing a comparison made in similar school-funding battles being...
...Bryan S. Schiller, a first-year in the MPP program, said Normoyle seemed "extremely energetic and charismatic," noting that Normoyle had a "large following" at the presidential debate...
With the testimony of Simpson, however, Clark--and the world--can at least get some vicarious satisfaction. On Friday many members of the media and legal VIPs--including author Lawrence Schiller and former Simpson defense attorney Robert Shapiro--were relegated to watching the trial on a screen in a "listening room" at the Doubletree hotel next door to the courthouse. And inside the courtroom there was an air of occasion as Simpson and plaintiffs' attorney Daniel Petrocelli began their cat-and-mouse game. Simpson--who had stopped to jauntily sign autographs as he arrived--at last found himself nearly face...