August 19th, 2007 06:49pm
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After it became widely known that Gunter Grass had served in a Nazi SS unit toward the end of the Second World War, there were demands for the return of his Nobel Prize for literature. Grass was a teenager when drafted into the German army. In his autobiography, Peeling the Onion, he describes the war in horrific detail. He barely escaped with his life, and today, he has become a …
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August 6th, 2007 12:31am
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After traveling across the country for five weeks by train, Petaluma was a welcome sight. Its golden hills and tranquil river greeted me like an old friend, and I felt the breath of the ocean renew my tired body. “Is it possible to be attached to, or love a place more than one does a human being?” asks Katie Lee in Sisters of the Earth. Yes.
Midway through my …
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