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After leaving office in November, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder wasted no time sprucing up his résumé. He took a job as consultant with Swiss publishers Ringier in November; he even attended a rural language school in Wales to brush up on his English. Russian, though, might have been a better choice. Only weeks after brokering, as Chancellor, a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin for a gas pipeline linking the two countries, Schröder earlier this month stepped into the role of project chairman. Set to start piping gas into Europe...
...Time was not kind to the house: it took eight years to repair damage caused by neglect, a fire, shifting foundations and a hole in the roof left by an unexploded World War II German bomb. Today, the structure bears a Grade I listing, Britain's highest designation for historic buildings. A combination of heritage funds, corporate donors and private benefactors paid for the $6 million rehabilitation. "There is not a single level corner in this house,'' director M?rcia Balisciano says. But she points proudly to restored features like the paneling, now painted its original pale green color, identified through...
...executive in Texas in 1943, Malick entered Harvard as a first-year in 1961, living in Matthews. He moved into Adams the following year, and concentrated in Philosophy under Professor Emeritus and respected film theorist Stanley Cavell, who provoked Malick’s interest in German philosopher Martin Heidegger...
...come as a surprise that the Wu-Tang Clan were classically inclined; in the beat for Ghostface Killah’s “Black Jesus,” the RZA samples a chorus from Wagner’s “Lohengrin.” If the German composer’s rabidly racist devotees (Hitler was one of many) had lived long enough to hear it, they would have surely soiled their lederhosen...
...press conference with Rice in Berlin, Germany's new Chancellor, Angela Merkel, said the Bush Administration has admitted that U.S. agents "erroneously" abducted Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen of Lebanese descent who they believed had terrorist ties. Rice would only say that when mistakes are made, Washington would "rectify them." El-Masri, who filed a suit in U.S. federal court last week against former CIA Director George Tenet and three private airline companies, claims that agents seized him on the Serbian-Macedonian border in 2003 and held him in Afghanistan for five months...