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When Clinton became President, Holbrooke sought appointment as ambassador to Japan but had to settle for Germany. In a characteristically blatant concentration on the center of power, Holbrooke cultivated relations with Chancellor Helmut Kohl's top foreign policy expert Joachim Bitterlich, and all but ignored Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel, to the irritation of the German foreign office. In October he returned to Foggy Bottom as the top European policymaker...
...Germany: Heidemarie Siebke was sentenced to three years in jail last month for clubbing neighbor Hans-Joachim Kampioni with a chair and severing his penis with a kitchen knife after they had a few drinks and he badgered her for sex. Kampioni's penis was found in the ruins of his flat, which she had torched, but it was too badly mutilated to be reattached...
Even more painful is Joachim Schlomer's Behind White Lilies, a trendy bit of Euro-junk full of pretentious claptrap involving obscure religious rituals. As for Kevin O'Day's Quartet, there are Tharpian moments -- O'Day danced with Tharp for several years -- but also a lot of bustle and humor that is his own. He looks like a good investment for the company...
Many are appalled at what they find: treachery by friends, parents, brothers, sisters, spouses -- some 200,000 "unofficial co-workers" in all. The custodian of the files, Joachim Gauck, warns former citizens of the east to "think twice before applying -- the shock could cause family catastrophes. One should look deeply inside oneself before making this decision...
Otherwise, it was a slow, quiet summer. For weeks, the top non-Sox story was the ongoing plagiarism scandal involving Boston University dean Joachim Maitre, whose commencement speech included 15 paragraphs of a local film critic's essay about declining societal standards. Big deal...