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...would be a good idea for religious sects to be subjected to some sort of control. We have learned that the best religious fanatic can be a terrorist. AKANBI GABRIEL Essen, Germany...
Positions in Contemporary GermanPhotography. Ute Eskildsen, curator ofphotography, Museum Folkwang, Essen. SacklerMuseum...
European Union leaders, meanwhile, convened their own summit in Essen, Germany, to announce plans to open their trading bloc gradually to the former Soviet satellites of Eastern Europe. The move mirrors events on the other side of the Atlantic: If the all-American trade accord goes through, the U.S. is expected to depend far more on South America than on Europe or Japan in the next century...
Another somewhat surprising victor on the right was German Chancellor Helmut Kohl -- shortening the odds that after a tough re-election fight in October, he will be around to play host at the E.U. summit set for the steel town of Essen in December. The 38.8% polled by Kohl's two-party coalition abruptly stalled the once inevitable rise of charismatic Rudolf Scharping, whose Socialists won only 32.2%. At the other end of the tally, Britain's conservative John Major lived fully down to expectations, as his Tories plunged to 27% of the popular vote, their worst showing ever. When...
...Germany appointed to teach theology under church auspices. For good measure, Uta Ranke-Heinemann was a convert from Protestantism, the daughter of a West German President and the wife of a first cousin of Poland's Catholic Primate. Nonetheless, in 1987 the German hierarchy forced the University of Essen to oust Ranke-Heinemann from her Catholic professorship and give her another teaching post that would not imply any church endorsement. Her sin: in defiance of Christian teaching, Ranke-Heinemann had concluded that Mary was not a virgin when she gave birth to Jesus...