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OPENED. THE MEMORIAL TO THE MURDERED JEWS OF EUROPE, by German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Jewish leaders from around the world; in Berlin. The memorial, an undulating 19,000-sq-m field of 2,711 concrete slabs, was designed by American architect Peter Eisenman and cost $35 million to build. Although the idea for a memorial was first mooted by German journalist Lea Rosh in 1988, it took 15 years of debate over the design before construction began in 2003. Parliamentary President Wolfgang Thierse said the monument, which is dedicated to the Holocaust's 6 million Jewish victims...
...period, to 63%. "Turks feel at the mercy of forces they don't understand," says Hakan Altinay, director of the Open Society Institute's Turkey office in Istanbul. The long-awaited E.U. decision was "intoxicating for many Turks," he says. "This is the hangover." Suat Kiniklioglu, head of the German Marshall Fund's Turkey office, adds: "Before [the E.U. decision], everyone was holding together to get a date to start talks. Now people are becoming confused. There is fatigue, and nationalism becomes an escape route." The embattled government of the pro-Islamic Justice and Development (AK) party, led by Prime...
...remarks, Müntefering compared private equity groups and short-term investors like hedge funds to "swarms of locusts" that fall on companies, devour all they can, and then move on. "Some financial investors don't waste any thoughts on the people whose jobs they destroy," he told a German newspaper. The fire and brimstone is part of the spd's effort to woo back voters disillusioned by the government's own economic reforms. Last Friday, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder himself joined the apocalyptic debate by calling on his ministers to examine whether hedge funds should be subject...
...Those Chinese who protest against the whitewashing of World War II events in Japanese textbooks have often been presented as a mindless mob. Suppose, however, that a German textbook claimed that Nazi actions during the war were justified as a defense against Jews and communists. There would understandably be a huge uproar across Europe. Japan's wartime atrocities were crimes against humanity comparable to those in Europe, yet they have been below our moral radar. John Butler Kidderminster, England...
...want to do this to make more progress. We’re having a great deal of trouble fitting all of our business in” during the one and a half hours allotted for each monthly Faculty meeting, said Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan, a member of the Council...