| The Comeback Continent
Why should Americans care about Europe's economy? Well, for one thing, it's big. The G.D.P. of the European Union is roughly comparable to that of the United States; the euro is almost as important a global currency as the dollar; and the governance of the world financial system is, for practical purposes, equally shared by the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve. But there's another thing: it's important to get the facts about Europe's economy right because the alleged woes of that economy play an important role in American political discourse, usually as an excuse for the insecurities and injustices of our own society. For example, does Hillary Clinton have a plan to cover the millions of Americans who lack health insurance? "She takes her inspiration from European bureaucracies," sneers Mitt Romney.
When the Nazis came to Aiken – a look at a different time
At some point before lunch time on Monday, Jan. 24, 1944, prisoner Gurd Guztat slipped away, unnoticed, from his work detail group in Hitchcock Woods, old Aiken Standard newspaper clippings report.His absence was not discovered until the group broke for lunch and a head count was taken. Guztat was a German prisoner of war being held at the Aiken POW Camp located where Mattie C. Hall now sits today. He was described as having blond hair, blue eyes and a fair complexion. When he disappeared, he was wearing the blue dungarees issued to each prisoner.A manhunt was immediately launched by the Aiken City Police Department, the Aiken County Sheriff's Office and the FBI. Local roads were blocked off and guarded, cars were stopped and searched and, in what seemed to be a last ditch effort, bloodhounds were brought into Aiken from Columbia to help with the search.Following a tip from a citizen, officers finally discovered and apprehended Guztat on the following Wednesday hiding in the city's trash dump.
Penelope Keith and the handbag landmine
There were one or two things that I thought were terribly funny when I read the script, I must say. It was just bizarre, it was déjà vu. It was fun to do." There are no plans for the Manor to be reborn again. Keith is married to Rodney Timson, whom she met while appearing in a play in Chichester in 1976. He was a policeman, twice divorced, four years younger than her, assigned to the theatre. Tabloid attention ensued. These days he looks after his wife's business affairs - though she guffaws at the suggestion that he's her manager - and has a bit of a reputation for his, er, uncompromising language. Keith smiles. "I think he says an awful lot of what people would like to say. No, he doesn't swear all the time. He does occasionally at journalists, but he had a very bad time early on - I mean, chasing him while he was doing his job is not on, is it?" Timson and Keith's latest brush with Her Majesty's Press has been over their proposed café in Avoch in the Highlands.
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