Word: essen
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GIULIANI: I say to Tony, "I need the police and fire commissioners with me. We gotta all be on the same page." I know [Fire Commissioner] Tommy [Von Essen] might want to stay there, but I want him with...
...visitors on a journey through the mystic universe of Buddhist deities, monks and saints. The exhibition, which lasts through the end of October, presents one of the most important collections of Tibetan art in the world. It was compiled over three decades by a German theological scholar, Gerd-Wolfgang Essen, now 70 and living in Hamburg, Germany, who says failing health prompted him to sell the collection. "I was sorry to let it go," says Essen, "but I am happy that it is now in a museum in Basel, in the heart of Europe. It's the best place...
...work since 1994. But now two European museums have been allowed to join forces to bring together 88 of his photos, taken between 1948 and 2000, together with an hour-long film and seven of his shorts. The show is a co-production by the Folkwang Museum in Essen, Germany, where it was until late February, and the Queen Sofía Museum in Madrid, where it is now and until June 20. In September, it travels to Lisbon's Belém Cultural Center...
...says Karel Uyttendaele, director of Fabrimetal, an employers' federation that includes the IT sector. German universities have upped their capacity for IT students--from 13,000 two years ago to 40,000 today. But that is still not enough, argues Ullrich Heilmann, an economist with an Essen think tank. "The way it is now, you have professors standing in huge lecture halls talking to nobody about things nobody cares about, while IT courses are overfilled...