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Ryder obviously needs help, and there are plenty of therapies that work. "For most shoplifters, getting something for nothing is like giving themselves a reward that they feel they deserve," says Peter Berlin, who runs Shoplifters Alternative, a New York--based rehabilitation program. Psychotherapy may help break the habit, as may drugs such as naltrexone, used to treat alcoholics, or antidepressants like Prozac. But the best therapy may be what Ryder got. When 112 repeat shoplifters were asked in a telephone survey what would deter them, their top choice was "prosecution." --With reporting by Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles
...A400M can be deployed around 2009. At present, according to NATO figures, the U.S. has a fleet of 340 planes for strategic airlift; European allies own 11, and rental agreements on a further 25 are due to expire at the end of the year. Fixing the problem fell to Berlin, say NATO officials, in part because its capability needs to be bolstered: the Bundeswehr had to rent Ukrainian Antonovs to get cargo to Afghanistan last spring, and the Schröder government, pleading budget problems, has already reduced its order for the A400M from a promised 73 planes to just...
...central story of Cabaret follows the romance between Cliff Bradshaw, an American writer in Berlin, and Sally Bowles, a mysterious dancer from the club. At the same time, a powerful subplot involves the more mundane “aging spinster”—Fraülein Schneider—and her lodger/boyfriend—Herr Schultz. Blum and Fairfield reworked specific scenes to keep Bradshaw active and central in the play, not allowing him to become overshadowed by the richly developed subplot. “We rewrote [an] entire song to make Cliff cooler...
...withdrawn, replaced by a less frightening one. "If al-Qaeda could mount an attack upon key economic targets, or upon our transport infrastructure, they would," it now read. "If they could inflict damage upon the health of our population, they would." Other European intelligence agencies were less equivocal. In Berlin, Germany's normally reticent intelligence chief, August Hanning, made the case in a frank interview on prime-time television: "The fear is very concrete that we must reckon with a further attack ... of perhaps great dimension." Hans-Josef Beth, who heads the international counterterrorism unit of the foreign intelligence agency...
Imagine the following scenario: The mayor of Berlin proposes that an exiled statue of Hermann Goering be restored to a prominent city square. He argues that while certain people may remember the Nazi leader as a vicious war criminal who founded the Gestapo, others associate him with his patronage of the Hermann Goering Master School for Painting and the Prussian Academy of Arts...