Archive for March, 2009

Architecture of death

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

Source: National Post

“Think about when the first survivor who comes there: ‘You want to charge me to go to the place where my parents were killed?’

Germany Charges Ohio Man With Complicity in Deaths at Nazi Camp

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Source: The Washington Post

German prosecutors said yesterday they have issued an arrest warrant for an 88-year-old retired autoworker in Ohio, charging him with complicity in the murder of thousands of people at a Nazi death camp six decades ago.

Why the Poor Stay Poor

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Source: New York Times

When the nation’s first black president took the oath of office, surrounded by the grandeur of the National Mall, it was easy to forget that one of the country’s most isolated and impoverished black ghettos was a few short blocks away.