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...earlier this year, her game appeared to unravel. Despite winning her home tournament in Antwerp in February, Henin failed to go beyond the quarterfinals at any other event. At last week's German Open, she was upset by Dinara Safina in the third round. Although she was injury-free, Henin had pulled out of this week's Italian Open citing fatigue, and the WTA fined her $20,000 for late withdrawal...
...diary [May 5], once more the frightening thought occurs to me that the entire populations of Poland and Germany were in agreement with, and fully supported, Hitler's "final solution." Surely there were rallies, organized protests, etc., yet we are left with the impression that the average Pole or German simply shrugged his or her shoulders and went about his or her business. Please tell me I am wrong. Irv Jacobs, LA MESA, CALIF...
...long experience of emergencies and I've never seen anything like this," says Julio Sosa Calo, head of mission in Laputta for the German relief group Malteser International. "We need a huge humanitarian response. What we're doing now is too little compared to the need." There are now 58 camps in town, most of them set up in temples, monasteries and schools. More survivors arrive every day. "To be honest, we're all a bit lost when it comes to numbers," confesses Sosa Calo. "People know that this is the place where they can get assistance, so they...
...fascism. And he also examines the Kremlin's repeated use of its ample energy resources to threaten its Western-oriented neighbors. Most troubling is what Lucas calls "pipeline politics" - Moscow's plans to build the Nord Stream gas pipeline from the Shtokman Field in the Barents Sea to the German city of Greifswald; and its attempts to derail Western plans to install a pipeline connecting the Caspian Sea and Baumgarten, Austria. That project, the Nabucco pipeline, would circumvent Russia by bisecting Turkey, and would give Russia's neighbors far more bargaining power when negotiating with Gazprom, the state...
...Juergen Weckherlin. The German garment businessman has worked in Hong Kong for nearly a decade; indeed, he is a permanent resident of the city. Over the years, Weckherlin has hopped into China more than 300 times to visit factories belonging to his company which are spread across four provinces. But now, after years of doing business in China, he finds himself stymied in his efforts to renew his visa at the mainland?s issuing office in Hong Kong. "It's a slap in the face," he says, one that is being felt by hundreds, if not thousands, of other foreign...