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...read your article, however, I expect I might drop dead at any moment. You were absolutely right to publish this report, but you painted a dark picture by suggesting that this new technology is hard to find and brutally expensive. My search starts today-for a counselor. Alan Orpin Hamburg, Germany...
...read your article, however, I expect I might drop dead at any moment. You were absolutely right to publish this report, but you painted a dark picture by suggesting that this new technology is hard to find and brutally expensive. My search starts today - for a counselor. Alan Orpin Hamburg, Germany The Sudan Situation Your article "Who Speaks For Her?" [on the violence against women committed by the Janjaweed militiamen in Sudan's Darfur region] was badly out of date and portrayed the situation in a sensationalist and inaccurate manner [Sept. 5]. In recent months the government of Sudan...
...daughter of a Protestant minister, Merkel was born in Hamburg and grew up in the East German resort town of Templin. She joined the Young Pioneers, a communist youth group, but focused mainly on her studies. At home, her family talked politics nonstop, but, she said in her autobiography, "it was completely theoretical because we could not change anything." After studying physics at Leipzig University, she began looking for work. Applying for a job at a technical institute, she was approached by the secret police to spy on colleagues. She says she begged off, telling them she couldn't keep...
...small-scale European operations. They're now bustling, growing rapidly and accounting for ever more of the U.S. groups' business. In four years, Blackstone's investments in Europe have jumped from about 10% to 30% to 40% of its total business, and the firm has opened offices in London, Hamburg and Paris. "It has become quite a significant part of our business," says Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone's CEO and one of its co-founders. "It's a moment of structural change in Europe." The American moneymen last year were involved in about one-third of all European buyouts, doing deals...
...chomping Americans trampling over Europe seems misplaced. While some of the major U.S. investors have Americans on staff in Europe, their public face is usually local. "We are not showing up with a cowboy hat," says the principal of one U.S. fund. Ostmeier, for example, who is based in Hamburg, is German, a former management consultant with Boston Consulting Group in Düsseldorf. He spent seven years working for a London-based European private-equity group before he joined Blackstone in 2003. Jean-Pierre Millet, who runs Carlyle's European operations out of Paris, is the first non-American...