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...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...
...Lowell: Benton B. Bodamer, Georg A. Bongartz, Han-Chiao I. Chen, Julia C. Drisdell, Andrew G. Ei, Lindsay P. Jones, Laura P. Knoll, Kathy W. Lu, Shruti Ravikumar and Michael P. Tully...
...collaborating with edgy designers including Julien MacDonald and Alexander McQueen. This year Swarovski tried to make the same impact in Milan by teaming up with young industrial-design talents. The mission? To reinvent the chandelier. The seven resulting works did just that. Hella Jongerius made a chandelier frock. Georg Baldele created a rectangular "Glitter Box." But the favorite of V&A curator Gareth Williams was Tord Boontje's "Design Blossom," a tree branch strung with lights and crystals. The creations are all one-of-a-kind prototypes, but Clare Kubicki, spokeswoman for Swarovski, says the company hopes that the manufacturers...
...soccer World Cups 2002 and 2006 are bringing in some income, rumors continue to swirl that Premiere will soon seek to renegotiate its $330 million annual deal with Germany's domestic league - double the amount of the previous contract. "We have to bring our agreements into line with reality," Georg Kofler, the head of KirchPayTV, told the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. That reality: 2.4 million subscribers for the station, less than half the 6 million once projected. Says Kofler: "We can't continue to pay for subscribers who aren't there...