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...this Austrian without title or position manage to get himself elected head of a German nation renowned for its civilizing mission? How to explain the success of his cheap demagogy in the heart of a people so proud of having inherited the genius of a Wolfgang von Goethe and an Immanuel Kant...
DIED. LEONIE RYSANEK, 71, show-stopping Austrian soprano whose soaring arias so entranced fans she once kept them standing--and clapping--throughout the entire intermission of a Wagner opera; of bone cancer; in Vienna...
...urge for offshore banking but not the cash to try it? Rather than saving up for a plane ticket to Grand Cayman, check out a new online bank opening its virtual doors this week. Sicherheit und Privat (Security and Privacy) is an Austrian bank that offers encrypted communications, digital cash transactions and a privacy-protected MasterCard for a minimum deposit of $1,000 (as opposed to $10K to $50K in a typical Swiss bank). Could be just the thing for low rollers trying to hide cash from a spouse's divorce lawyers...
American male lugers might have thought themselves in an even stranger waking dream when, in an event that has ever seen only German, Austrian, Italian and Russian medalists, they abruptly took a silver--and a bronze. Indeed, second-place Chris Thorpe and Gordy Sheer came within 22/1,000ths of a second of the mighty Germans, who had collected a gold, a silver and a bronze in the previous three Olympics. Zipping down the track in their lemon yellow suits, the Americans (who recorded with their two teammates a theme song titled Arctic Evil Knievels) pumped their fists as they...
Then another snowboarder, Austrian Martin Freinademetz, trashes his hotel room and ruins a switchboard by spilling beer...