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...French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, also at the Munich conference, were silent on whether they would offer more troops. German Defense Minister Franz-Josef Jung told the conference that the priority in Afghanistan should be civic support. "We will not win by military means alone," he said. "There can be no development without security, but there can be no security without development either...
...Vronskys, Oblonskys and other skis. Part of the book was about skiing. Are you accusing me of never reading this book? Why don’t you read it if you think you’re so smart. Fuck you. It’s also partly about her brother Josef K., the push-over attorney from Franz Kafka’s awesome novel, “The Trial.” Kafka’s original manuscript was loosely based on a German facsimile of a John Grisham novel called “Runaway Trial.” The lawyers...
Called Zeitungszeugen - Newspaper Witnesses - the first issue of the series includes not only a reprint of Der Angriff - whose editor and most strident columnist was propaganda chief Josef Goebbels - but also the communist paper Der Kämpfer and the more moderate Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. The facsimiles are bound inside pages of commentary and analysis intended to give them context. British publisher and hobby historian Peter McGee has already launched similar projects in eight European countries, including Austria. Prominent historians, such as Hans Mommsen, a leading expert on the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany, and Wolfgang Benz, head...
Lafarge is by no means alone. Franz-Josef Ulm, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a concrete expert, says "there's not one single cement company that is not looking at" ways to improve the resistance of concrete. He still sees room for improvement. The next step is to create materials with higher strength but that use the same amount of initial material, says...
German Opinion There he is again, and again he is wrong, poor old Josef Joffe - unfortunately representing Germany in "A Watching World" [Nov. 17]. Years ago he considered himself to be the only German intelligent enough to explain the necessity of the Iraq war to the incredulous rest of the country. Nice to see he has overcome the embarrassment and feels strong enough to get it all wrong about Europe's "swooning" response to, and expectations of, Obama. Obama's Western European supporters deserved a more empathetic article than Joffe's complacent little outcry. Josef Werker, KREFELD, GERMANY