How would one even begin to arrive at a sum for the reparation payments?
The reparation demand is simple: a renaming contest for any and all dissatisfied municipalities.
"There is the acknowledgment, and then there is the reparation and recovery".
The reparation payments, which came in eight installments of $50 million each, were finally completed last week.
The lawyers are to be paid from a separate fund negotiated last year with the German Foundation, the organization in charge of distributing the reparation money.
"I don't have any understanding of the Greek decision," the German foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, said after Athens said it would back the reparation claim.
Is this what I get as my big reward, the reparation for all the wrongs of the past — a DNA test?
The "Reparation Hardware" exhibition, which opened on Super Bowl Sunday, highlights how absurd, but also how easy, and how seductive, it is to align social justice with consumerism.
This experience allowed him to produce a dictionary, "The Reparation of Speech," whose introduction, in a kind of grammatical Stockholm syndrome, effusively praises the kidnappers: "They speak according to their desert nature and their ingrained instincts.
The "Reparation Hardware" video uses Restoration Hardware's audiovisual lexicon of solemn aerial drone footage and a light, bland score to set off the source material's tone of patronizing sincerity before gradually, and happily, going off key.
He also paid for the tuition of a young African American who wanted to attend Yale, saying that "he was doing it as his part of the reparation due from every white man to every black man".
