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...rolling out the reforms - the Kultusministerkonferenz (a compound word allowed under the new regime, since one part cannot be written independently) will hold talks in Vienna next week to decide whether the reforms need to be reformed. The decision by Axel Springer Verlag and Spiegel-Verlag is a real blow because their publications reach about 60% of Germans. The Süddeutsche Zeitung announced it too was going back to the old system, joining the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, which switched back four years ago. "I don't think it would be a very good idea to have two systems...
...Everything from the athletic facilities to ticket sales has suffered from the typical Greek last-minute rush but both are catching up quickly. Two executives from Greek TV were fired after the network went dark for 25 minutes during the Greek soccer team?s first match. Then, the final blow came yesterday, when the two top Greek track stars (including the sprinter who was also expected to be the torch lighter at the Opening ceremonies) missed their doping tests...
...will resonate with the others," Hardt and Negri write, "amplifying them all in coordination, creating an earthquake of the multitude." Eventually. Perhaps. But so far the multitude is looking pretty uncoordinated, and the Empire pretty sturdy. It'll take a lot more than Multitude's huffing and puffing to blow it down. --By Lev Grossman
...thing about juggling is that if you blow it everybody sees it,” he explains further. “It’s a very honest art that...
DIED. CARLO DI PALMA, 79, cinematographer and maestro of movie lighting; in Rome. Working with director Michelangelo Antonioni, he obliterated the palette of realism by painting the grass yellow in The Red Desert and greener than green in Blow-Up, creating two of the most influential color films. In the mid-'80s, he ushered Woody Allen into a visually rich period with subtle lighting in such films as Radio Days and Hannah and Her Sisters...