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...bush that is blown across the Central Asian steppes by winter winds, shedding seeds, leaves and branches as it goes. The English-language equivalent is tumbleweed, which certainly describes the book's tragically displaced heroine, Kaja, and in a sense the work itself. The talk of the 2000 Frankfurt Book Fair, Kuraj won a yurtful of literary prizes after it first appeared in Italy in the same year. Subsequent translations have charmed critics in France, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands and Spain. Newly published in English, it comes with a map of the many trans-Caucasian journeys recounted, plus a glossary...
...Harry Frankfurt...
...that." Though Schrempp is on his way out, DaimlerChrysler's numbers are looking up. The group's net profits were up 28% to 3737 million last quarter, while sales grew 4% to 338.4 billion - a result that exceeded forecasts. Investors reacted positively. By the close of trading at the Frankfurt stock exchange Friday, the group's shares had shot up more than 9% to the highest level since 2002. Seems everybody likes the smell of a new car president...
...June public offering on the Frankfurt stock exchange set off a stampede by investors. The shares were more than seven times oversubscribed, not least because MTU's sales are rising briskly and its cash flow more than doubled in the first quarter as the aircraft industry picked up again. KKR's total equity investment in MTU was $326 million. Following the IPO, KKR has returned $590 million to its investors, and it continues to hold a 29% stake, valued at $390 million. KKR tripled its money in 19 months...
...guards Vienna's Schwechat Airport but ruled out isolating the El Al check-in area in a remote corner of the airport because, as one spokesman put it, the airline did not want to operate in "a ghetto." Highly visible armed police patrolled El Al check-in areas at Frankfurt, Munich and Paris airports. Passengers on the twice-weekly El Al flight between Tel Aviv and Madrid, which is said to be a likely target for terrorists, were questioned about their reasons for traveling to Israel. At Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport and Britain's Manchester airport, workers staged...