Word: baden
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...much is known about the killer so far. The son of a businessman from the neighboring village of Leutenbach (pop. 4,800), he had started an apprenticeship after graduating with middling success in 2007. According to Baden-W?rttemberg education minister Helmut Rau, Kretschmer had been known in his former school as an "entirely unremarkable" student who had "never attracted attention in any fashion". Obviously, the politician added, the youngster must have had a "double identity". (Read "How the NIU Massacre Happened...
...stage for Obama's first visit to Europe as President next month, which includes a meeting with all 27 E.U. leaders in Prague as well as a London summit of the G-20, which gathers the world's major economies, and NATO's 60th anniversary summit in Strasbourg and Baden-Baden. "There is an overarching theme to the trip to Brussels, which is the reconnection of the United States with Europe and really a sense of consolidating this enormous political goodwill on both sides of the Atlantic," interim Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Daniel Fried said...
Facing financial difficulty, Merckle appealed to the government of his home state of Baden-Wüerttemberg in November for help and was rejected. Hearing news of Merckle's death, Baden-Wüerttemberg's conservative premier, Günther Oettinger, said the state had lost a great entrepreneur. "News of Adolf Merckle's death left me deeply shaken," he said...
Merckle's investment company, VEM, owes banks €5 billion. For the past two months, Merckle had been entrenched in negotiations with some 40 banks, including Commerzbank AG, Deutsche Bank AG, Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC and public bank Landesbank Baden-Wüerttemberg, to get a bridge loan to keep VEM afloat...
...Beckmann from the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich Through Jan. 6, 2008 The three paintings by Max Beckmann on loan from the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich each represent very different stages in the German painter’s life and career. The earliest, “Dance in Baden-Baden” (1923) is an example of his social satire at its most exquisitely cutting. Beckmann finds the gruesome in the glamorous, as bored and beautiful women in profile dance with men whose eyes they won’t meet. 1932’s “Landscape with Tempest...