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...Deniz Yigitoglu, Mark Twain's story 'The Awful German Language' would be of painful significance. Although the pretty 16-year-old daughter of Turkish migrants has spent most of her life in Germany - her parents moved to the industrial city of Duisburg when she was three - she speaks heavily accented German, which she admits is "quite faulty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Losers in the Language Gap | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

Topping off an incredibly successful year, in which she came in second at the NCAA finals in the 10,000-meter run, Jones went to the World University Games in Duisburg, West Germany at the end of the summer. Teammate Meredith Rainey was also a member of the national team that went to the Games...

Author: By Liz Resnick, | Title: She Knows How to Finish With A Smile | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...bronze medal at the world championships last August in Duisburg. West Germany, and sports a litany of crew honors--six times on the U.S. national team, his two Olympic appearances, a 1970 trip to the World Youth Rowing Championships in Greece, and a total of five visits to the Royal Henley Regatta in England Wood definitely is the bettor's pack...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Tiff Wood | 10/22/1983 | See Source »

...Budapest Spring Festival in March was primarily devoted to BartÓk. Many of the masterpieces will be heard in Vienna this summer, while West Germany this year is staging what is billed as the largest festival ever devoted to a modern composer-146 concerts in such cities as Duisburg, Cologne and Essen. In Italy, thanks to the efforts of a national committee, BartÓk will resound from Sicily to the Swiss border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bart | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

Determined to paddle his own canoe in the West, Vladas Cesiunas, 39, slipped away from a Soviet sports team at Frankfurt airport in August, while en route to the World Canoe Championships in Duisburg. A gold medal winner in the 1972 Olympics, the Soviet canoeing star was quickly granted political asylum in West Germany, and thus became the first of the well-known Soviet sport and dance personalities who have defected to the West in the past two months, a group that includes Bolshoi Ballet Star Alexander Godunov and Skaters Oleg Protopopov and Ludmila Belousova...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST: KGB Kidnaping | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

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