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Leonard van der Kuijp, chair of the Sanskrit and Indian studies department, could not be reached for comment yesterday...
...metalworkers, the chemical workers' union two weeks ago agreed to a 3.3% increase. The companies, said Martin Kannegiesser, the employers' association president, have gone "to the limit of what was possible." A walkout now would represent a major embarrassment to the government of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, which had promised to cut unemployment dramatically and faces re-election in September. Zwickel, the IG Metall leader who favors three-piece suits over worker's overalls, argues that big pay raises are good for the domestic economy by increasing consumer spending. But economists worry that a strike now could wreck...
Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, written in 1909, is ultimately about farewell, as the work makes repeated use of a two-note falling motive, first used in the last movement of Das Lied von der Erde, which Mahler extends to form a three-note quotation from Beethoven’s Les Adieux piano sonata. These motivic constructions permeate every movement of the piece. Leonard Bernstein, in his 1973 Norton lectures here at Harvard, defined the symphony as a farewell to life, tonality and “our Faustian society.” There was no doubt, however, that...
Kirch's failure immediately turned into a political issue between Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and his opponent in September's national elections, Bavarian Premier Edmund Stoiber. Schröder, who heads the Social Democratic party, said the Kirch bankruptcy demonstrated Stoiber's failed leadership because the Bayerische Landesbank, which is 50% owned by the Bavarian government, is Kirch's biggest creditor with $1.7 billion in outstanding loans. "That is not an indication of economic competence but the opposite," Schr Schröder said. Stoiber, who is the candidate of his Christian Social Union and the mainstream Christian Democrats, said...
...Natasha Rosow , Kate Levine , Carlin Wing , Avra Van der...