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...Josef von Sternberg was a famous Hollywood auteur in 1930 and Dietrich a minor Berlin actress when he cast her as Lola, the crass chanteuse of The Blue Angel. Just like that, a star was born: an anti-Garbo who viewed life and love as a series of awful amusements. In their seven films together--of which a terrific trio (Morocco, Blonde Venus and The Devil Is a Woman) are included here--Sternberg swathed Dietrich's wry sexuality in silk, feathers, a gorilla suit and his camera's soft-focus devotion. As his films got more deliriously abstract...
...amaze me. Can Olmert explain how he would achieve peace by unilaterally setting the border, thereby annexing as much as half of the West Bank and Jerusalem and leaving 4 million Palestinians in a series of disconnected cantons? Mike Barnes Watford, England Lessons Unlearned In his Viewpoint [April 17], Josef Joffe traces the trajectory of the economic rise of China and compares it to the past examples of Germany and Japan, which, of course, ended badly. He concludes that this time things could be different because of the lessons of history and a price of miscalculation, which is now obviously...
...team. Dutch film director Theo van Gogh, before he was murdered by a radical Islamist in Amsterdam, was a poster boy for unconditional free speech. He said Muslims had sex with goats and that a Jewish writer with whom he disagreed had erotic dreams about Nazi death-camp doctor Josef Mengele. He was never convicted under the Netherlands' statute banning "scornful blasphemy." The Justice Minister proposed reviving the law in the wake of his death, to use against the kind of offensive speech Van Gogh was killed over, but a decision has yet to be reached. In France last week...
...lobbied senators to oppose the bill. Yet not every athlete desperate to find a welcoming Olympic team makes the cut. Greece's national bobsled and skeleton teams include at least two Canadians and three Americans with dual citizenship, but they still didn't qualify for the Games. Austrian skier Josef Strobl had no chance to penetrate his country's talent-deep ski team. So Strobl, who had a Slovenian great-grandfather, tried for a spot on Slovenia's team - but didn't make that, either. The Olympic dream fuels the nation-hopping. Alpine skier Christelle Douibi and cross-country skier...
...city, which hosted 6.9 million visitors in 2004. Quite how many more will come this year isn't clear, although Brugger expects a 10% jump in total visitors. Salzburg stores are stuffed with Mozart souvenirs - from musical boxes and T shirts to the famous Mozart Kugel chocolates. Josef and Marina Reiter, who own a souvenir shop on the motorway that connects Salzburg to Munich, are looking forward to a roaring 2006. "We are expecting the Mozart year to be great for business," says Marina Reiter. "Everyone wants to take a little bit of Mozart home with them...