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...short periods - if the realities of their jobs would let them. A 1999 study by the State Institute for Family Research in Bamberg, Germany, found that 20% of men would like to take parental leave. But state figures show that only 2% of German fathers actually do so. Dortmund-based management assistant Ansgar von der Osten, 38, declined to take his unpaid parental leave entitlement of up to three years after the birth of each of his two children because his wife was studying. He also declined to take advantage of the part-time working hours to which...
...says demand is ratcheting up to get work. "There's a lot of pressure to find a job," he says. "What will people do - sleep in the street?" Kevin Mantik, 22, an unemployed carpenter in Berlin, says the government is pressing him to move to the western city of Dortmund because there is a job there for him. "I will go but I'll have to leave my family and friends behind," Mantik says. If he doesn't go, he'll lose all his jobless benefits. Most of Schröder's proposed reforms still haven't been submitted...
...Andriy Shevchenko, Ukraine's star striker, scored in the dying moments of the second leg of his country's World Cup play-off against Germany on Nov. 14, he knew the goal would serve no purpose: the Germans were already leading by four. As the final whistle sounded in Dortmund's Westfalenstadion, the Ukrainians slumped to the turf. Shevchenko was shattered. "The door of the World Cup is closed to me," he said later. Football fans around the world mourned with Shevchenko, for they will be deprived of the chance of seeing football's most prolific striker?73 goals...
...decision a black mark for the Italian justice system and "a slap in the face" for the victims of the massacre and their families. The battle is not over yet, says TIME's Rhea Schoenthal from Bonn. "The German government is out to get Priebke. The court in Dortmund has written out the extradition request and will try to prosecute him regardless. Germany really can't afford to do anything else; it is German policy to put as many Nazi war criminals as possible on trial." so far. The 1,600 relay team, meanwhile, will have to make do without...
This utter fluency in the art may account for Del Monaco's range. As a young director in small German cities such as Ulm and Dortmund, he was radical; he set a Butterfly in Saigon (long before Miss Saigon) and a Forza del Destino in Spain during the Civil War. But he is best known for productions that are traditional in concept, modern in their psychological astuteness and, occasionally, rude in their action. At the climax of the love duet in the Met's Butterfly, Pinkerton begins stripping his bride, who throws back her head in ecstasy. On opening night...