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...British audience. A study by the London branch of the Goethe Institute, which promotes Germany abroad, exposed the U.K.'s lack of interest in the country's people, language and culture. So the Institute launched a publicity campaign, targeted at British students, teachers and cultural bodies, which will fill mailboxes with postcards featuring übermodel Claudia Schiffer and the slogan learn German, and look good. There's a serious side to this, says the Institute's Klaus Krischok: "There are streets in Germany where Nazis used to walk. These streets have changed a lot, so why not change your perception...
...shortage of employees. Homes in nations like Germany and Switzerland have staffs twice to three times the size of those in France, says Pascal Champvert, president of an association of French retirement-home directors. "I definitely have enough work for an expanded staff, but I can't fill positions," says Catherine Johanet, director of Sainte-Agnès. "Working with the elderly is scorned professionally and culturally." Elderly people in southern Europe - including the south of France - tend to be more integrated into families than in the north. So the heat wave there was accordingly less deadly. Nice, Marseilles...
...when it comes to knowing a public figure, what we expect from elected officials is something different from what we settle for from movie stars. A guy can spend decades playing killer robots and musclehead commandos without once being asked to provide the timeline on his steroid use, fill in the picture on his sex life or clarify his position on offshore oil drilling. On the Today show last week, Arnold was asked twice whether he would make his tax returns public. He claimed he couldn't hear the question...
Fortunately, we have VH1 to fill in the blanks. I Love the '70s (Aug. 18-22, 9 p.m. E.T.) is a 10-hour, year-by-year celebration of '70s trash culture: the Partridges and the Mod Squad, Underoos and Underalls, CB radios and est. It's the kind of empty-calorie video flypaper at which VH1 excels. Channel-flip across it and, try as you might to resist, say goodbye to the next two hours of your life. Filled out with reminiscences from every B-list celeb who ever came within 50 yds. of a VH1 camera (Ed's Michael...
Harvard has swiped a Yale official to fill its vacant Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) registrar position come October, officials announced yesterday...