Word: berliner
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...Rancor like that suggests money is at stake, and of course, it is. Berlin is keen to claim an estimated $6 billion in unpaid taxes on funds that German citizens are thought to have spirited away to Liechtenstein, beyond the reach of Germany's tax authorities - but not, it turns out, of its spies. Germany's Federal Intelligence Service, the BND, paid as much as $7 million to a former employee of a trust controlled by the LGT Group, a bank owned by the principality's royal family. In return, the BND received stolen computer discs containing names of people...
...private collector, Shelby White, a trustee of the Met, who agreed to give back 10 items from the collection she had formed with her late husband. And Italy is by no means the only nation making demands. Egypt wants the bust of Nefertiti from the Egyptian Museum in Berlin. Peru says Yale must return artifacts from the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu. And China has asked the U.S. to ban the import of almost anything of aesthetic interest--scrolls, paintings, furniture--made from the prehistoric era to the end of the Qing dynasty...
...having a clearly defined exercise plan can hurt too. Investigators at Berlin's Free University found that people who set general goals, like "I will exercise in my free time," did a far worse job of sticking to that plan than did people who made a firm commitment, like "I will walk to my friend's house and back every Monday, Wednesday and Friday...
...hour's ride by high-speed train from Berlin, the Phaeno has assembled 70 contemporary works that show the range of emotion and ingenuity of kinetic artists. They have at least one thing in common: "They're all completely obsessive," says Sarah Alexander of Cabaret Mechanical Theatre, a museum of automata that brings its showcase of 10 British artists, including Paul Spooner, to the Phaeno. The inspiration for Spooner's witty, handcranked wooden tableaux can be an artistic masterpiece - as in his saucy version of Manet's Olympia - or the odd mental image of a man eating the bathtub...
...Meanwhile, investigators are expected to continue their search for suspects. Merkel, due to meet Liechtenstein's Prime Minister Otmar Hasler in Berlin on Wednesday, is pressing to close any loopholes that encourage tax evasion. Whatever the outcome of that effort, it appears likely that in Germany's tax scandal, the drama has just begun...