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...much violence and few deaths. This is a miracle. The whole situation could have got out of control and ended up in carnage or civil war. Many people from eastern Germany today believe that the GDR was not so bad. It is necessary to remind them of the truth. Georg Sylvester, AUGSBURG, GERMANY
...Obama's departure for Ghana, the Pope had no intention of papering over differences on what the Vatican calls "life" issues, such as abortion and euthanasia. While reporters and photographers waited in a narrow Vatican corridor outside the library during the private audience, the Pope's personal secretary, Monsignor Georg Ganswein, disclosed that there was one item added to the list of gifts for Obama: "Dignitas Personae" ("The Dignity of a Person"), a Vatican document released in December that lays out its latest stance on biomedical ethics. "It can help the President better understand the position of the Catholic Church...
...Hamburg-based company sees the downturn as a chance to press home its dominance by expanding and squeezing out stumbling rivals. Fielmann, which also operates in Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Poland, plans to open 150 new stores in Germany alone, as many as 30 of them this year. Georg Alexander Zeiss, Fielmann's head of finance, says that he is also considering acquisitions of smaller, weaker competitors. "We are looking at every serious opportunity," Zeiss says...
...body still appears strangely attractive to a raft of minor celebrities. Among the candidates hoping to be elected or re-elected are former Czech astronaut Vladimir Remek; Finland's four-time winner of the Paris-Dakar rally, Ari Vatanen; Bulgarian Taekwondo champion and nightclub impresario Slavi Binev; and Paul Georg Maria Joseph Dominikus von Habsburg, the grandson of the last Austro-Hungarian emperor. Also making a bid is Gigi Becali, the owner of Romania's Steaua Bucharest soccer club, who is facing kidnapping charges...
...Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust center and the former East German secret police closed investigations into that part of his history without detecting any enthusiasm for Hitler's regime. Ratzinger's family was solidly anti-Nazi. But unlike John Paul, Ratzinger had no childhood Jewish playmates. His older brother Georg told German philosopher Raphaela Schmid, "I didn't know what a Jew was." That changed when their family moved from a small Bavarian village to the town of Traunstein, where in 1933, papal biographer John Allen reports, a DO NOT BUY FROM THE JEW sign hung in the main square...