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JULY 3 COREY SMALL RANK: PFC * AGE 20 * East Berlin...
...this year, Small was shipped off to Iraq. He was proud to serve his country and received word that he might be promoted while in the Persian Gulf. On July 3, he died from a gunshot in a noncombat incident that the Army says is under investigation. The East Berlin post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars has helped set up a trust fund for Jayden, and donations are pouring in. --Reported by Amanda Bower...
...couple of atavistic turns of phrase to remind everyone that petty prejudices live on - and that politicians and the press are still willing to exploit them. After Schröder nixed Italy, Bild stoked the fires by staging a topless "beach demo" in front of the Italian embassy in Berlin, with a front-page picture of four topless girls as evidence that Germans are "pretty, sexy and charming." No insults there, then. The kerfuffle leaves Schröder trying to make the best of what sounds like a summer booby prize: two weeks in his native Hanover, famous...
...maybe, the Italians suspect, not even then. The German tourist board is launching an ad campaign in France, with film clips from Berlin's annual hedonistic Love Parade and the slyly sexy slogan there's so much we can do together. With time, maybe it will work. But right now, there's so much the Germans would rather do in Italy. Along the Rimini coast near Schröder's aborted destination, it's Stefani rather than any German who is persona non grata. Maurizio Melucci, the head of tourism for the city of Rimini, was one of the first...
...that he won't tolerate merely shifting the monopoly; he warned state-owned flag carriers that they "do not have blanket immunity from the competition rules." Rolf Georg is testing to make sure. He owns a four-person firm, based in Frankfurt, that runs an overnight sleeper service between Berlin and Malmö, Sweden. When DB charged him what he says were exorbitant prices to lease one of its engines, he took the case directly to Monti in Brussels, where it's still being examined. "They need to see they can't get away with it," he says. If people...