Word: frankfurter
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After tying up a gallery security guard, thieves in Frankfurt, Germany, managed to make off with three works by Romantic painters J.M.W. Turner and Caspar David Friedrich valued at $42 million. Meanwhile, across the ocean at a warehouse on Boston's waterfront, a 1786 portrait of Thomas Jefferson worth at least $1 million was lifted from a metal and concrete safe...
...store, at California's Glendale Galleria, 30 miles from Disneyland. The store was an immediate hit; and rather than eating into park revenue and attendance, it helped promote them. The company now has stores in the U.S., Canada, Britain, Germany and Japan. The Champs Elysees Superstore and another in Frankfurt opened late last year. And Disney is planning stand-alone stores on the Warner model in upmarket venues like Michigan Avenue in Chicago and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan...
Chicago trader Peter Dunne, who works and sleeps to the sound of bond futures markets buzzing from Frankfurt to Tokyo, can attest to the global expansion of derivatives trading in the past four years alone. Dunne's working day has lengthened four hours over that stretch: he rises at 4:30 a.m. to get to the Chicago Board of Trade by 6 a.m. to begin the business of trading that can last until 9 p.m. The trading day for stocks and bonds has grown to marathon proportions as well. Sophia Ulanday, who sells U.S. stocks for Lehman Brothers in Hong...
With President Richard von Weizsacker in attendance, the film premiered in Frankfurt, the city where Schindler died in poverty in 1974. Then it moved to local theaters across the country. In Cologne's Cinedom, half a dozen young women collapsed sobbing in the arms of friends or parents. "I have never seen an audience behave like this," said Wolfgang Rohrig, a 26-year-old student. "It was as if they were in church. It was as if something sacred had happened...
...children quickly volunteered to see the 3-hour 15-minute movie. Yes, on a school day; but playing hooky will educate kids in ! the lesson of man's inhumanity to man -- and of one man's humanity. To Michel Friedman, a child of Schindlerjuden and a leader in Frankfurt's Jewish community, Schindler's importance was not that he was a hero but that he was a human being: "a Mensch," says Friedman, using a good German and Yiddish word. "He is proof that if you wanted to help, even in 1944, even in Auschwitz, you could." And the response...