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...bodies that were buried by German soldiers. "It was good that the Germans were buried near the church," she says. "They were human souls, not enemies, at least not to me." That remarkable sympathy seems to have lasted; the German flag flies alongside the Romanian colors at the church gate. Schröder is said to revere his father, and to have been struck by a black-and-white wartime photograph of his dad in a steel helmet that reveals their physical similarities: the same square jaw, steely eyes and prominent nose. And after his own experience sending troops into...
...defining Kerry negatively. Those attacks will continue, Bush sources say, but they will take a backseat to a new, more positive message. "You have to pick your moments," says a senior Administration official. "You don't want to give a positive speech and then come out of the gate lashing...
...life is returning to a certain normality. Outside the Caffit cafe in the city's German Colony, twice a target for attempted suicide bombings, an Ethiopian Jew checks bags and swipes a metal detector over would-be diners before unlatching the security gate. Most of the restaurant guards in Jerusalem are drawn from the underprivileged Ethiopian community--few others are willing to take a low-paying job that could lead to a terrible death. The Ethiopian security check has become so quotidian that only the naivete of a child can expose the strangeness of it. As an Israeli woman walked...
...trucked from Sydney and installed in a white booth in Menzies' town hall. Persuading 130 people to enter, strip naked and allow a red beam to scan their bodies for 15 sec. was an achievement in itself. "It was like trying to get a mob of sheep through a gate," says Kath Finlayson. "They'd all break and go everywhere." Here the cowboy qualities of Ronald Hogarth were called upon. As Finlayson tells it, "I said, 'Hogie, look you haven't had a bloody missus for 30, 40 years, come on. No one wants to look at what...
...bucks for an in-flight meal recently? That's because cost-cutting airlines don't want to pay for expensive food anymore. So the now empty-handed caterers are going after your business directly. Leading the way are two of the industry's biggest caterers, Switzerland-based Gate Gourmet Group Inc. and Germany-based LSG Sky Chefs. "Before, our customer was the airline," says David Siegel, former president and CEO of US Airways Group Inc. and Gate Gourmet's newly appointed chairman and CEO. "Now, it is the passenger." How do passengers feel about forking over money for food? Dalene...