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...unexpected. The caricatures are without a doubt condemnable and indeed tasteless, to say the least. For once, the West?especially Europe?is confronted with the need to re-examine its self-absorbed democratic culture, one that doesn't give a hoot about the sensibilities of others. Sunny Esho vInnsbruck, Austria...
...unexpected. The caricatures are without a doubt condemnable and indeed tasteless, to say the least. For once, the West - especially Europe - is confronted with the need to re-examine its self-absorbed democratic culture, one that doesn't give a hoot about the sensibilities of others. Sunny Esho Innsbruck, Austria...
Musical theater has a long history of successful productions that at first glance don't seem particularly fun or uplifting?consider Oliver!'s homeless orphans in Dickensian London, or The Sound of Music's Von Trapp family harmonizing its way out of Nazi-occupied Austria. But in Seoul, novice theater director Jung Sung San is pushing the concept of the unlikely musical to a new extreme. Jung, 36, currently has a cast in rehearsal for a musical about the prison camps of North Korea...
...SENTENCED. DAVID IRVING, 67, to three years in jail for denying the Holocaust; in Vienna, Austria. The controversial British historian was arrested last November on charges stemming from two speeches he gave in Austria in 1989, in which he called the gas chambers of Auschwitz a "fairytale" and claimed that Adolf Hitler had protected Europe's Jews. Irving, who was seized by Austrian police on his way to address a far-right student fraternity in Vienna, told the court that he had since changed his views and felt sorrow "for all the innocent people who died during the Second World...
...night before the competition. This happened without any positive results from doping control. It's crazy." Agovino defends his actions. "Athletes are obliged to respect the law like everyone else," he says. Mayer, meanwhile, fled the area and was later taken into custody across the border in Austria after crashing his car into a police roadblock. While denying allegations that he was involved in doping, Mayer checked into the psychiatric ward of an Austrian hospital, and told a local magazine that he was trying to kill himself when he crashed the car. Biathletes Wolfgang Rottmann and Wolfgang Perner, among...