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Hotel Nassauer Hof: The thermal pools of this grand hotel's Beauty Centre look across Wiesbaden's rooftops through its fifth-floor windows. Guests are welcomed with a glass of champagne, perhaps followed by a basalt-stone massage, a water-bed exfoliating treatment or a marine-mud pack. Hotel guests have free access to the designer wellness area but nonresidents need to book a day treatment, which buys entry rights to all the facilities. A full-body massage and facial treatment form part of the day package, with prices starting at just over $230. The spa also works closely with...
Kleinfeld and Hershman met in early December at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Munich, where the consultant sized up the Siemens boss. At one point during dinner, Hershman leaned forward and said, "Don't hire me if you've got a problem, because I'm going to find it, and if I feel misled or hindered, I will leave, and that won't be good for your company." Stirring the ice in his Diet Coke, Kleinfeld coolly replied, "I have nothing to hide...
...Posseck crossing is one of 73 holes hacked into the 858-mile-long East- West German border since Nov. 9, when East Germany granted its citizens unrestricted travel rights. Schubert's daily chore is to pick up 25 copies of the Frankenpost, a newspaper published in Hof, a sizable town on the West German side. She is unaware of and untroubled by the fact that politicians in Bonn and Berlin have yet to agree on terms for the distribution of West German newspapers, which have been banned in East Germany for the past three decades. "Frankenpost has a special edition...
...talk of treaty commitments and politicians dither over the touchy issue of unification, Germans East and West are playing soccer together, going shopping together, drinking beer together, dancing together and, oddly, breeding rabbits together. "Don't laugh," says Arnold Friedrich, the mayor of Modlareuth, a divided border town near Hof. "There are rabbit strains over there that have developed separately, and rabbit breeders are eager to get them. There are government rules on sending animals across. So naturally, smuggling rabbits is very active...
...station, only to be driven back by police wielding clubs and water cannons. The crowd, which included casual onlookers as well as those trying to get on the trains, overturned police vehicles and pelted police with rocks. A total of 7,600 East Germans from Prague reached safety in Hof the next morning, and 600 more arrived from Warsaw the following day, bringing to 15,000 the total evacuated since the embassy occupations began...