Word: german-american
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...cookbook, in short, has come a long way from St. Louis, Mo., where the newly widowed Irma Rombauer, in the teeth of the Great Depression, assembled her recipes and those of her largely German-American friends. Whether the new Joy will win minds and hearts the way the old ones did remains a matter of intense interest to those involved. A lot is riding on this project, and as Irma's friends might have said, the proof is in the pudding. --Reported by Andrea Sachs/Cincinnati
...worship in some of the most beautiful religious structures in the city instead of the storefronts in which poor congregations often start out. At the same time, church planting has advantages for struggling host congregations like Our Redeemer, whose membership has fallen from 1,200 to 88 as its German-American neighborhood has changed to a black, Haitian and Latino one. With the church scrambling to pay utility bills of as much as $1,000 a month, the $300-a-month rent the Haitians pay comes in handy. And church members say the planted congregation sends a message...
...only speculate on what became of Oliver Schmidt's research. Perhaps one of the skate rats wandered across the street from the pit by the T station and discovered the unlocked bike. Maybe the composition books full of notes on German-American relations provided a brief diversion from the hackey-sack games favored by the tattooed, purple-haired, unwashed denizens...
Schmidt said his research focuses on German-American relations, especially student exchange programs between Germany...
...some Germans, however, those words may be too kind. Officials are uneasy when Americans talk enthusiastically of a special German-American relationship. The slogan "Partners in Leadership," which describes official U.S. policy toward Germany, touches a Europeanist nerve. "When one talks of leadership, one must think of the very successful system in the E.C., where every country has just one vote," says Volker Ruhe, general secretary of Kohl's Christian Democratic Union, who was named Defense Minister last week. "We don't like to lead from the front. We like to lead from the middle of the crowd...