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...first time I heard a Neubauten song, I was scared out of my wits—their 1985 album, “Halber Mensch,” opened with a maelstrom of shrieking in semi-decipherable German. Einsturzende Neubauten’s new album Perpetuum Mobile is mellower. While there’s a surprising absence of drills and metal chainsaws, their fondness for power tools and machines is still carried by the airy bellows of plastic tubing, three air compressors, electric fans and large amplified metal springs...
...Power Out”, their debut album for indie label Beggars Group, frontwoman Verity Susman (classier) has contributed vocals in four different languages (classiest). And get this: the English words on “The Valleys” are from a Siegried Sassoon poem, while the German ones on “This Deed” are from The Gay Science—by Nietzsche...
...sunshine policy” of North-South détente. Stemming from fears of a North Korean offensive or a massive refugee influx, “sunshine” has in practice meant appeasement. Its moral vacuity was laid bare this past August, when a German human rights worker, Dr. Norbert Vollertsen, was beaten by South Korean riot police while trying to launch a flock of hot air balloons carrying radios toward North Korea. A few days later, he led a peaceful anti-Kim Jong Il protest outside a press center in Taejon and was assaulted by North Korean reporters...
...term consequences. And the Shiite leadership wants the terms of the provisional government's mandate, and a strict timetable for elections, spelled out in a UN Security Council resolution. The Shiite Ayatollah wants the UN to play the leading role in Iraq's transition to sovereignty, he told a German magazine last weekend, and he expects it to oversee and supervise the election process...
...test run of the new system on 600 trucks, it's unclear whether the government will restart the contract. In the meantime, the humble windshield stickers will be reintroduced - one German technology that's still reliable. A Flight Plan For Alitalia He is Silvio Berlusconi's most trusted bad-weather pilot. Cabinet Under Secretary Gianni Letta, a veteran of thorny negotiations among political factions and labor unions, was chosen last week to end the ongoing stalemate at Alitalia. Italy 's national air carrier has faced a series of strikes (another 24-hour stoppage is planned for March 5) after chief...