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They had been warned. In April 1914, General von Plettenburgh, commanding the Prussian Guards Corps, issued a decree against the wearing of the so-called "tooth-brush" moustache, pointing out that such an appendage was unsuitable for a Prussian soldier and "not consonant with the German national character." Subsequently, a well-known political figure managed to cast himself as a German super-patriot in spite of wearing exactly that kind of moustache.
So I had some cabbage left over from making stuffed cabbage a while back; a lot of onions; and some leeks that really needed to be used before they wilted. So I decided to try and use all the natural flavours of the stuff. I melted some chopped bacon fat (good for extra flavour) over a very slow fire; added the chopped onions, sliced leeks, and cabbage; cooked it very slowly; then added some chickpeas and vegetable stock and kept it cooking till the moisture had shrunk. I looked forward to a really pleasant main course.
So I placed the first spoonful in my mouth.
CRUNNCCCCHH!!
I had forgotten to wash the earth out of the leeks.
So I placed the first spoonful in my mouth.
CRUNNCCCCHH!!
I had forgotten to wash the earth out of the leeks.
This happened a mile or two down the road from where I live.
A secondary school which shut because staff thought an intruder was hiding in the roof is to reopen this week.
Despite police searches using infra-red heat detectors at the Crofton School in Lewisham, south-east London, the man has not been found.
Associate head teacher Rob Cooper said staff were confident he had gone, but said extra security measures would stay in place "as long as necessary".
Teachers suspected last month there was an intruder and spotted him last week.
The school, which has 900 pupils, shut last week after staff caught sight of the man.
They had heard noises in the ducting, believed to be him crawling around.
Mr Cooper said pupils would start returning on Wednesday and the school would be back to normal by the end of the week.
However, extra security measures brought in to give parents and staff peace of mind will remain.
He said: "Although the man has not been caught, we are confident the police have done everything possible to find him."
He added: "This man has caused considerable disruption to the life of Crofton School as well as causing a great deal of local concern."
Pupils have been given work to do at home while the school has been closed and GCSE-year pupils have remained on the school site, but in a different building.
Superintendent Adrian Rabot, of Lewisham Police, said he was confident that everything had been done to make sure the building was safe.
"The debris that was found may well have been there for a considerable length of time but until we have conducted DNA tests we can't say how recently."
Several suspects arrested locally have all had been eliminated from the inquiry.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/england/london/4616802.stm
Published: 2006/01/16 12:16:47 GMT
© BBC MMVI
A secondary school which shut because staff thought an intruder was hiding in the roof is to reopen this week.
Despite police searches using infra-red heat detectors at the Crofton School in Lewisham, south-east London, the man has not been found.
Associate head teacher Rob Cooper said staff were confident he had gone, but said extra security measures would stay in place "as long as necessary".
Teachers suspected last month there was an intruder and spotted him last week.
The school, which has 900 pupils, shut last week after staff caught sight of the man.
They had heard noises in the ducting, believed to be him crawling around.
Mr Cooper said pupils would start returning on Wednesday and the school would be back to normal by the end of the week.
However, extra security measures brought in to give parents and staff peace of mind will remain.
He said: "Although the man has not been caught, we are confident the police have done everything possible to find him."
He added: "This man has caused considerable disruption to the life of Crofton School as well as causing a great deal of local concern."
Pupils have been given work to do at home while the school has been closed and GCSE-year pupils have remained on the school site, but in a different building.
Superintendent Adrian Rabot, of Lewisham Police, said he was confident that everything had been done to make sure the building was safe.
"The debris that was found may well have been there for a considerable length of time but until we have conducted DNA tests we can't say how recently."
Several suspects arrested locally have all had been eliminated from the inquiry.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/england/london/4616802.stm
Published: 2006/01/16 12:16:47 GMT
© BBC MMVI
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Jan. 30th, 2006 09:13 amI am not saying that the points I am going to make are very politically significant or have any great value in terms of good and evil. At best they are an indication of how the Republican Party of the US deals with particular situations.
Has anyone noticed how hugely similar Henry Kissinger and Condoleeza Rice are? In 1968 and in 2000, a Republican candidate wins an election. He is ferociously hated by the Democrats and the left, and is widely suspected of having stolen the election; certainly his opponents will never believe anything else. His posture is populist and he speaks as the opponent of the West and East Coast "elites". While his first election had been disputed, his second is a cakewalk: he trounces a candidate who is the expression of that "elitist" hard-left mentality which he denounces.
In both cases, the Republican populist invites a person with no political background, but plenty of academic prestige, to be his national security adviser; and in both cases, this academic is promoted to Secretary of State in his second administration. In both cases, these are people whose intellectual abilities demand respect even from opponents, and whose stature in the administration quickly comes to seem unique. (A joke going around in the Nixon year said, "Do you realize that if Kissinger died now, Nixon would become President?" And Dr.Rice is still being held forward, in spite of her repeated and vehement denials, as the likeliest Republican candidate at the next elections.) Kissinger is a German Jewish refugee who to this day speaks English with the thickest of German accents, and Rice is an African-American woman and quite likely a lesbian. That is, each of them, in their turn, had a background which was by his or her time wholly respectable, but which had just enough of perceived difference and of memories of prejudice, discrimination, and even violence, to draw attention to themselves in the largely WASP world of the Republican Party. Kissinger had escaped Hitler as a young Jewish man, and Rice, as a child, survived a Ku Klux Klan bomb outrage that killed four of her girl friends. So you might say that they both could be held to show that there were no locked gates in the Republican party for people of merit and distinction. Finally, they both have a whiff of that European culture that the Anglo-Saxons both fear and over-rate; Kissinger with his German professor's stance, attitude and accent, and Rice with her classical music training and foreign languages (and enough chic to get by in Paris and Milan).
As I said, I do not think that this has any enormous amount of meaning. But it is interesting.
Has anyone noticed how hugely similar Henry Kissinger and Condoleeza Rice are? In 1968 and in 2000, a Republican candidate wins an election. He is ferociously hated by the Democrats and the left, and is widely suspected of having stolen the election; certainly his opponents will never believe anything else. His posture is populist and he speaks as the opponent of the West and East Coast "elites". While his first election had been disputed, his second is a cakewalk: he trounces a candidate who is the expression of that "elitist" hard-left mentality which he denounces.
In both cases, the Republican populist invites a person with no political background, but plenty of academic prestige, to be his national security adviser; and in both cases, this academic is promoted to Secretary of State in his second administration. In both cases, these are people whose intellectual abilities demand respect even from opponents, and whose stature in the administration quickly comes to seem unique. (A joke going around in the Nixon year said, "Do you realize that if Kissinger died now, Nixon would become President?" And Dr.Rice is still being held forward, in spite of her repeated and vehement denials, as the likeliest Republican candidate at the next elections.) Kissinger is a German Jewish refugee who to this day speaks English with the thickest of German accents, and Rice is an African-American woman and quite likely a lesbian. That is, each of them, in their turn, had a background which was by his or her time wholly respectable, but which had just enough of perceived difference and of memories of prejudice, discrimination, and even violence, to draw attention to themselves in the largely WASP world of the Republican Party. Kissinger had escaped Hitler as a young Jewish man, and Rice, as a child, survived a Ku Klux Klan bomb outrage that killed four of her girl friends. So you might say that they both could be held to show that there were no locked gates in the Republican party for people of merit and distinction. Finally, they both have a whiff of that European culture that the Anglo-Saxons both fear and over-rate; Kissinger with his German professor's stance, attitude and accent, and Rice with her classical music training and foreign languages (and enough chic to get by in Paris and Milan).
As I said, I do not think that this has any enormous amount of meaning. But it is interesting.
