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Nevertheless, at the elementary school, principal David Thompson is an unabashed Benz booster. When the school needed extra buses to transport pupils to the ballet, Thompson said, Mercedes provided them. And when the car company learned the school was mounting a production of Hansel and Gretel, it dispatched several of its expats to help the pupils learn German songs. The experience made a lasting impression on the students. As Thompson put it, "They couldn't tell you your multiplication tables if you asked them. If you say, 'What's 9 times 7?', they probably have already forgotten it. But they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Welfare: States At War | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

When Hedwig was still called Hansel, a sexually confused "girly boy" growing up in communist East Berlin, he used to listen to American rock 'n' roll in the only place he could find privacy: sticking his head in the family oven. Later an American serviceman arranged for a sex-change operation (a botched one, leaving just an "angry inch" of scar tissue) so the two could marry and emigrate to America. Hedwig wound up in a trailer park in Kansas, where her G.I. abandoned her. Then she met Tommy Gnosis, a rock singer whom she helped turn into a superstar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Anatomy of a Drag Queen | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

Cynthia J. Hansel, a second-year student at the Kennedy School said she didn't use the MAC this year because of its inferior equipment...

Author: By Aaron R. Cohen, | Title: MAC Fee Included In Tuition | 2/26/1997 | See Source »

...there was good equipment, I would have paid up to as much as a private club charged, because the MAC is so convenient," Hansel said. "I was only able to join the private club because I have...

Author: By Aaron R. Cohen, | Title: MAC Fee Included In Tuition | 2/26/1997 | See Source »

Travel six miles up a dirt road in Oklahoma's Ozarks and you will reach a 400-acre, semi-religious encampment called Elohim City. There you will find a vine-covered structure roofed over with polyurethane foam, looking oddly like the cottage in the tale of Hansel and Gretel. This is the Worship House. Within it Elohim's spiritual father, Robert Millar, 71, preaches a mix of Christian Scripture and heterodox tales of Germanic, Celtic and Scandinavian tribes--the true Israelites who will provide God's terrible soldiers at Armageddon. Lately, though, the elfin, white-bearded patriarch of the Christian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE CITY ON A HILL | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

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