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...German chancellor Gerhard Schröder's coalition government in danger of falling apart? A lot depends on negotiations this week in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein, where neither the ruling Social Democrats (SPD) nor the opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU) managed to win a majority in a February state election. After incumbent SPD state premier Heide Simonis failed to build a minority government, the SPD and CDU have opened talks on a possible "grand coalition." The CDU has the advantage: by walking away, it would trigger new state elections and almost certainly win. Failure to strike a deal...
WOLFGANG MAYRHUBER, Lufthansa CEO, on the pressure to consolidate within Europe's airline sector. The German carrier last week agreed to a takeover of struggling Swiss International Air Lines
...energetic online existence. In January 2004, he purportedly posted this message on a website: "I've been feeling a strong connection towards Nazi Germany, and it's not necessarily the most pleasing thought, though I can't help it. I feel like in a past life I was a German soldier." Two months later, he seemed to have become much more comfortable with that identity, allegedly signing on to nazi.org first as Todesengel (German for angel of death) and then as NativeNazi. "I've always carried a natural admiration for Hitler and his ideals, and his courage to take...
...named Karl after a German socialist, as she is writing her thesis about the reinterpretation of the idea of German musical traditions that took place in the Weimar Republic...
...even though there's plenty of sex and violence and violent sex in Metropolis, the most compelling parts are actually Gaffney's accounts of 19th century manual labor, which are as coolly, finely drawn as an architect's rendering. Her German leading man shovels snow and lays roads for the city, replacing New York City's "knobby, pothole-begetting ostrich-egg cobblestones" with slabs of smooth Belgian granite. He does time mucking out the fascinating labyrinth of Manhattan sewers. He works underwater laying the foundations of the Brooklyn Bridge in the silty muck at the bottom of the East River...