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...hill that gave the district its name in 1921. From the monument to the Wars of Liberation of 1813-15 at the top you have a sweeping view of the city and can relax to the sound of the waterfall tumbling down to Kreuzbergstrasse. Composer Giacomo Meyerbeer and philosopher Georg Friedrich Hegel were two of many historical figures who took their beers in Viktoria Park on the Kreuzberg. Centuries earlier medieval Christian knights known as Templars cultivated vineyards on the hill - a practice revived by the local horticultural office in 1968. At the bottom of the hill follow Kreuzbergstrasse east...
...last year had a financial surplus of €7.2 million, will be obliged to transfer its savings to the cash-strapped Komische Oper. Many fear that the plan may save money only at the cost of quality and diversity. "I hope we don't have three weak operas," says Georg Vierthaler, managing director of the Staatsoper. "Berlin needs one strong opera that has the power to compete with London and Vienna." But first Berlin's three opera houses will have to learn how to compete among themselves. As far as sponsorship goes, the relationship between culture and corporations is most...
...absolute majority. Big business has been a vocal critic of Schröder ever since he started hinting that higher taxes are necessary. "We are on the wrong path," says Ulrich Schumacher, ceo of chip maker Infineon. "I do not know anyone who is not worried." Ludwig Georg Braun, president of the Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry, attacked Schröder's reforms. "Emergency repairs are not enough to get the economy working again," Braun said. "The government must show willingness for comprehensive reforms that break Social Democratic taboos." Business has been particularly alarmed that sdp state governments...
...France and Malta last month; in Eindhoven last week a Dutch citizen of Moroccan origin was apprehended for allegedly plotting a suicide strike - but nothing crippling to the terrorist enterprise as a whole. The evidence was compel- ling enough for the former director of the German intelligence service, Hans-Georg Wieck, to conclude that Hanning's warning was justified. "You don't make a statement like that just to make people vigilant, otherwise you lose credibility," he says. "They've got something." But what? And is it enough to determine when and where al-Qaeda might strike? According to Omar...
...Internet heyday, when many venture capital firms hired young people with consulting or banking backgrounds who knew little about technology and had neither operating experience nor profit responsibility. "Now they are realizing that they need people with industry backgrounds to sort out their problems," says Düsseldorf-based Georg Kulenkampff, 51, a former board member of the large German utility firm Veba, now called E.on. At the request of investors, Kulenkampff has served over the last two years on the boards of seven European companies, including several high-tech firms...