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...from a decade of stagnation that has rattled the nation's self-confidence, Germans are again making ambitious plans for the future. Nobody is predicting a boom, but there are signs that Germany is ready to reassert itself as the economic engine of Europe. The economy is growing again, albeit slowly. The heart of Berlin, cut in two for 28 years by the infamous Wall, is now a showplace. The DZ Bank with its magnificent vaulted roof, the Jewish Museum with its lightning-bolt shape and the Sony Center in Potsdamer Platz with its circus-tent glass roof...
...Japanese professional baseball, the word "strike" has meant only one thing?and it wasn't a labor walkout. Japanese players are loyal company men first, superstars second, and even in a reform-minded era, baseball is a time capsule of old-fashioned hierarchy. So when players threatened a strike (albeit only on weekend games) last week to protest a plan to combine the two professional leagues and merge the debt-strapped Kintetsu Buffaloes into the Orix BlueWave, it was clear that something was very wrong...
...Visitors to the United Kingdom can experience a slice of slum life?albeit a gentrified one?with the opening of the Birmingham Back to Backs museum and holiday cottages...
...these different terrorist groups, everything I've heard is a complete rejection" of the beheadings. Scholars at Cairo's venerable al-Azhar seminary condemned Berg's fate. Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the learned star of an al-Jazeera ask-the-cleric show, has rationalized Palestinian suicide bombings, but said--albeit with some equivocation--that Berg's execution was not justified. Most scholars agree that the recent executions also sin against bans on mutilation of enemy bodies and mistreatment of prisoners...
...pool's biggest spat to date, American Aaron Piersol accused the Japanese swimmer of using an illegal dolphin kick in the 100-m breaststroke, thereby relegating Piersol's friend and fellow American Brendan Hansen to a silver. Instead of quietly turning away from the controversy, Kitajima fought back, albeit in an understated way: "The questions got me slightly angry," he told reporters, noting that he had never been warned about any prohibited kicks in previous international competitions. "But I don't take them seriously." Regardless, Piersol's griping was somewhat undercut later in the week when the Texan was briefly...