"YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS ARE AS DAZZLING AS YOUR SUBJECTS"

Friday, April 29, 2011

KARSTADT DEPARTMENT STORE, GIESSEN, GERMANY, ONCE UPON A TIME, III

ONCE-UPON-A-TIME 
KARSTADT DEPARTMENT STORE 
III 


KARSTADT DEPARTMENT STORE 
INTERIOR 
GIESSEN, GERMANY 


For another interior photograph, see here 

For a street scene centered on Karstadt, see here 

Thursday, April 28, 2011

KARSTADT DEPARTMENT STORE, GIESSEN, GERMANY, II

ONCE-UPON-A-TIME 
DEPARTMENT STORE 
II 


KARSTADT DEPARTMENT STORE 
GIESSEN, GERMANY 

Guess the Year? 

(Interior View here

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

LOBSANG SANGAY ELECTED PRIME MINISTER OF THE TIBETAN GOVERNMENT-IN-EXILE

THE TIBETAN 
GOVERNMENT-IN-EXILE 
HAS A NEW 
POLITICAL LEADER 


LOBSANG SANGAY 

Today the results of the election of the Prime Minister of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile were announced, and Lobsang Sangay, lately of Harvard Law School, won with fifty-five percent of the vote.  The position became more important after the Dalai Lama announced that he was giving up his political role

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

'LOOK, MUTTI': MOTHER & DAUGHTER IN KARSTADT DEPARTMENT STORE, GIESSEN, GERMANY, ONCE UPON A TIME

'LOOK, MUTTI' 


MOTHER & DAUGHTER 
PREPARING TO LUNCH 
in the 
Karstadt Department Store 
Giessen, Germany 

Once Upon a Time 

Karstadt was in the news earlier this month when its "billionaire owner," Nicolas Berggruen, was quoted as saying he was not interested in buying rival chain Kaufhof. 

Monday, April 25, 2011

VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY TURNS SIXTY-FIVE TODAY

VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY 
b. April 25, 1946 


LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY LEADER 
VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY 

at the moment after his December 1993 triumph 
still in the Duma on his sixty-fifth birthday 
-- indeed, vice speaker -- 
(though no longer a member of the 
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe) 

"Boris Yeltsin had been the leader who 'gives us hope'; now in late 1993, in the winter of the Russians' discontent, it was Vladimir Zhirinovsky who, it seemed, inspired hope among the dispossessed and the disadvantaged, but tumult and despair among the political class.   ... 

"The long-feared specter of 'Weimar Russia' appeared suddenly to have the possibility of real content – or rather, a face and form, and frizzy, short-cropped hair.

from RUSSIA REDUX, Chapter 11 


Sunday, April 24, 2011

"CHRIST THE LORD IS RISEN TODAY": ARKA PANA Church, Nowa Huta, Poland

"CHRIST 
THE LORD 
IS 
RISEN TODAY" 


ARKA PANA CHURCH 
Nowa Huta, Cracow, Poland, 1981 


"CHRIST CRUCIFIED" 
BUT RISING 
by 
BRONISŁAW CHROMY 

Saturday, April 23, 2011

BORIS YELTSIN GONE FOUR YEARS TODAY

BORIS YELTSIN 
February 1, 1931-April 23, 2007 


A THOUGHTFUL YELTSIN 
A LISTENING YELTSIN 


FIRST PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA 
July 10, 1991-December 31, 1999 

Thursday, April 14, 2011

THOMAS SCHELLING TIPS INTO HIS NINETIES

THOMAS C. SCHELLING 
b. April 14, 1921 


THOMAS SCHELLING 
at Harvard's Kennedy School 
October 5, 2006 

NOBEL ECONOMICS PRIZE, 2005 
shared with Robert J. Aumann) 

"for having enhanced our understanding of  
conflict and cooperation 
through game-theory analysis"  

more on the prize, here 

Schelling's lengthy summary Autobiography 
as given to the Nobel Committee