Word: german
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...lapses into Orientalist cliché-think saffron-robed monks, misty sunrises and cute, ethnically garbed children. But you'll find enough quality to keep the pages turning. The wealth of quirky factoids also helps: Bhutan, for instance, has a "Gross National Happiness" indicator, and did you know that a German minority (numbering 15,000 souls) can be found in Kyrgyzstan? Don't look for any depth here-the scope of the book means that it's impossible to devote more than a few pages to each country-but as a springboard to a continent it does the job. Expect...
...Real change began four years ago with the arrival of German retail giant Metro Cash & Carry. Foreign companies are still barred from setting up multi-brand retail outlets in India (single-brand shops, such as Nike and McDonald's, are allowed), but Metro was able to start a wholesaling business and sell directly to mom-and-pop shops, hotels, hospitals and other companies. But because the law still forced Metro to buy produce through the mandi system, there was little chance for improvements. Then Metro convinced the southern state of Karnataka, home to high-tech hub Bangalore, to change...
...summit, Germany has proposed a comprehensive agenda for world leaders ranging from more aid to Africa to persuading the U.S. to agree to a timetable for addressing climate change. But the meeting will also stress the importance of lowering existing barriers to investment and trade worldwide, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel stressing in the runup to the summit that "it is about mutuality, reciprocity." These are virtues that the freewheeling Baltic Sea countries pioneered in the 1200s and now embody once again...
...next wave of anti-immigrant feeling targeted Irish and German Catholics. In 1844 anti-immigrant rioters in Philadelphia burned two Catholic churches. By the mid-1850s, an anti-immigrant political movement, the Know-Nothings (so-called because their organization was secret), seemed poised for national success. Abraham Lincoln disdained them: "How can any one who abhors the oppression of Negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people?" The onset of the Civil War threw the Know-Nothings into the shade; the U.S. had enough homegrown trouble without worrying about immigrants...
Speaking from the Grand Serail, the seat of the Lebanese government in Beirut, Prime Minister Fouad Siniora had something dramatic to say in his interview with TIME. He had just gotten off the phone with Secretary of State Condeleezza Rice, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other world leaders to thank them for their help in establishing an international tribunal to bring plotters in the assassination of one of his predecessors to justice. Now, he says, Lebanese authorities have evidence that Syrian intelligence operatives are behind the ongoing violent clashes in a Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli as part...