COLD WAR BRATS II: FRANKFURT AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL I

COLD WAR BRATS 

II 

FRANKFURT AMERICAN 

HIGH SCHOOL 

I 

"As a kid, as a child of the Cold War, I had been 'stationed' abroad, in Guam and Japan and Germany." 

(Continued in HERE BE GIANTS) 

More 

Cold War Brats 

here & 

here & 

here 

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 

KARSTADT DEPARTMENT STORE, GIESSEN, GERMANY, II

ONCE-UPON-A-TIME 

DEPARTMENT STORE 

II 

KARSTADT DEPARTMENT STORE 

GIESSEN, GERMANY 

Guess the Year? 

(Interior View here) 

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. 

'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. 

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 

"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 

BORIS YELTSIN GONE FOUR YEARS TODAY

BORIS YELTSIN 

February 1, 1931-April 23, 2007 

A THOUGHTFUL YELTSIN 

A LISTENING YELTSIN 

August 23, 1990 

FIRST PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA 

July 10, 1991-December 31, 1999 

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 

(officially, The Sveriges Riksbank Prize 

in Economic Sciences 

in Memory of Alfred Nobel 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