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The Divisions Of Germany World

John Hawes | New Statesman | 19th September 2017

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Contestable but interesting argument that East Germany is the “bad” Germany and West Germany is the “good” Germany. Communist East Germany was the continuation of Prussia, a feudal and warlike society which dominated all Germany from 1871 to 1945. West Germany was a liberal, bourgeois society which thrived as a separate and quite different nation. Reuniting the two halves in 1990 was a mistake. It has weakened West Germany, opening the way to restored Prussian dominance (2,700 words)

If It Keeps On Raining Life

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A journey to Houston in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. “Water lapped at the floorboards. The Jeep could clear two feet easy, but on a few occasions, we looked in the mirror to watch the boat lift off its trailer and shimmy behind us, then ease back onto its carpeted runners. We entered neighborhoods of homes where floods had already come and gone, where people had started the process of mucking the unsalvageable remnants of their dwellings” (3,500 words)

RIP Bobby “The Brain” Heenan People

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“If obituaries are prone to otherworldly praise, especially in the superhuman realm of pro wrestling, allow me to be plain: Nobody — nobody — played that role better than Bobby Heenan, and nobody ever will again. For the average viewer, Heenan was the Rosetta Stone that allowed us to really understanding wrestling. By denying the truth of what we were all seeing in the ring, he gave voice to the farce, and in doing so he gave it a subversive sort of legitimacy” (1,600 words)

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