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...upcoming international trade talks, dozens of generic food names, such as feta cheese, basmati rice and Budweiser beer, may be restricted to their regions of origin [NOTEBOOK, Aug. 11]. Say it isn't so! What about French fries, Spanish omelets, Bermuda onions, Danish pastry and Belgian waffles? Will hamburgers come only from Hamburg? And frankfurters from Frankfurt? And what will become of Mom's apple pie? ESOR BEN-SOREK Rishon Le-Ziyyon, Israel
...million. What makes it harder for Berliners to bear is that they are accustomed to the high life. The city has three opera houses, five symphony orchestras and three world-class universities, all paid for by the Berlin government; it has 3,000 more police officers than Hamburg, a region of comparable size, and 30% more civil servants. Some of this has to go. "The average Berliner has to accept less culture, moderate cuts in education and a drawing down of the police force," Sarrazin told TIME. "But to be honest, there has been mostly an adverse reaction." The cuts...
...Mugabe "to the negotiating table" rather than oust him. - By Simon Robinson See Also: Zimbabwe in TIME Terror Suspects Held FRANCE AND BELGIUM Police said arrests in Paris and Deinze could be important breakthroughs in the war on terror. French police arrested two men with alleged ties to the Hamburg al-Qaeda cell responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Moroccan Karim Mehdi, 34, was nabbed in the Charles de Gaulle Airport en route to the island of Réunion. He is said to have told interrogators his mission was to scout tourist targets for an attack similar to the Bali...
...from the UAE Exchange Centre in Dubai to an account at Sun Trust Bank held jointly by Al Shehhi and 9/11 hijack team leader Mohammed Atta, while both men were attending Huffman Aviation school in Venice, Florida. Atta, who conceived the hijacking-attack scheme while living in Hamburg, Germany, flew American Flight 11 into the north tower of the World Trade Center. Al-Shehhi, a member of Atta's Hamburg al-Qaeda cell, crashed United Flight 175 into the World Trade Center's south tower. Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Midhar spearheaded the hijacking of American Flight 77, which...
...Grass in his home village of Behlendorf, a place of neat, brick-built farms an hour's drive from the city of Hamburg, whose elegant solidity looks rooted in the ages. In truth, Hamburg is a phoenix. In 1943, wrote the German novelist W.G. Sebald in On the Natural History of Destruction, a set of 1997 lectures recently translated into English, the British bombed Hamburg so heavily that a fire storm "lifted gables and roofs from buildings, tore trees from the ground and drove human beings before it like living torches." The absence of any body of literature discussing...