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Q. When did Germany's short-lived "Spartacus" revolution occur?
D.A., Boston
A. It took place during the chaos that befell Germany at the close
of World War I when Kaiser Wilhelm lost his power. The Communist
(Spartacus) leader Karl Liebknecht vied with the Socialists for
control of longstanding German worker unr...
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ASK THE GLOBE
The Boston Globe
; Q. When did Germany's short-lived "Spartacus" revolution occur? D.A., Boston A. It took place during the chaos that befell Germany at the close of World War I when Kaiser Wilhelm lost his power. The Communist (Spartacus) leader Karl Liebknecht vied with the Socialists for control of longstanding
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German government refusing to act
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Media reports have revealed that Nazi Waffen SS veterans living in Western countries, including more than 3,000 in the United States alone, are receiving often generous German government pensions. In fact, the higher the rank achieved in the SS, the greater the pension earned. The flip side of this
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Central Planning Of Electricity Must Fail
Atlanta Inquirer
; Richman, Sheldon Atlanta Inquirer 09-06-2003 Central economic planning was discredited in the old Soviet Union and every other country that attempted it. What the great economist Ludwig von Mises showed in theory in the 1920s was then demonstrated in practice in subsequent decades: central economic
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The future of sodomy.
Fordham Urban Law Journal
; ... at http://www.bostonphoenix.com/ boston/news%5Ffeatureslother%5Fstories/documents/02704491 ... 568. (199.) Press Release, Lambda Legal News Release, Landmark Ruling for Gay Civil ... on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. BBC News Online, U.S. Abortion Debate Intensifies ...
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(book review)
Notes
; Bach Handbuch. Edited by Konrad Kuster. Kassel: Barenreiter; Stuttgart: Metzler, 1999. [x, 997 p. ISBN 3-7618-2000-3 (Barenreiter); 3-476-01717-6 (Metzler). DM 158.] As we enter the new millennium via the Bach Year 2000, it is heartening to observe the recent appearance of a number of excellent
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Dictator tots
The Village Voice
; ... Germany's case, he created what is, no matter how many showy tricks you play on it, a piece of slow-moving, insufficient, old news. Simon McBurney's direction is expectably full of showy tricks. Unlike those in his earlier work, they tend to underscore, at ...
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BEING BULLISH ON HUB PAYS OFF FOR BEACON
The Boston Globe
; Being bullish on Boston has made Alan Leventhal a very successful man. While others lament the current population decline, sluggish job growth, drain of signature companies, and high cost of living, Leventhal, founder of Beacon Capital Partners LLC, sees a city well positioned for the future. His
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Recognizing art in virtual worlds
International Herald Tribune
; Ed Ward International Herald Tribune 09-11-2004 One of the biggest signs that the technological world has arrived is the inclusion of a category for digital communities among the prizes awarded at Ars Electronica this year. True, the festival bills itself as being about art, technology and society,
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Studying Our 'Spooky' Links With the Land
Forward
; Susan Miron Forward 04-07-1995 Studying Our `Spooky' Links With the Land. The witty, ebullient, intellectually omnivorous Simon Schama wears his erudition lightly. At the Jerusalem Book Fair, as the keynote speaker at the Aspen Forum on the Future of History, the peripatetic Mr. Schama
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War and Emerging Remembrance; German Veterans Begin to Add Narrative Piece to WWII
The Washington Post
; ... and his ravenous U.S. captors shared a baguette. Severloh said he first told his tale to an inquisitive correspondent for ABC News during the 40th anniversary of D-Day in 1984. But the real breakthrough came when an amateur war historian named Helmut Konrad ...
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