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...near Khao Lak beach in Phuket, Thailand. The company will also build an orphanage in each country and secure financing for the psychological care of youngsters there. "We want to show that we feel connected to these countries in which we have been active for decades," says ThyssenKrupp CEO Ekkehard Schulz. British American Tobacco's Sri Lankan division, Ceylon Tobacco Company, has pledged to rebuild a destroyed village, too. British American Tobacco plans to announce a substantial cash contribution to the relief drive this week. Companies whose products or services are desperately needed in affected countries - from drugmakers to utility...
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...share price languishes at 1997 levels. "The feeling is that the management in place has tended to give low priorities to investors, having several other constituencies that come higher up the attention screen," says John Lawson, who follows the auto business at Schroder Salomon Smith Barney in London. Adds Ekkehard Wenger, an economist at the University of Würzburg and a vocal corporate gadfly in Germany: "Volkswagen doesn't exist to serve shareholder value, it exists as part of the patronage structure of Lower Saxony...
Singers like Levine's spacious pace. Ekkehard Wlaschiha, the excellent Alberich, says that "to sing this music fast, you have to be Superman. Levine fulfills the tempi and he gives you time to phrase -- you can better form a musical arch." Adds Manfred Jung, a properly servile Mime: "It's no secret that the orchestra plays more quietly if the beat is not fast...
Prepared as he was for an Alpine outing, how did the Iceman perish? And what was he doing so high in the mountains? To Egg, the evidence suggests that the Iceman could have been a shepherd, part of a group tending sheep or cattle. Ekkehard Dreiseitel, a University of Innsbruck climatologist, agrees. "We know the weather 5,000 years ago was somewhat warmer. The pasturage in the high Alps ((above the tree line)) would have been tempting in the summer, since it requires no clearing of the forest." Because the ax resembles those found in Stone Age settlements near Brescia...