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...Czechs Like the E.U. Re "10 questions for Vaclav Klaus" [March 21]: I would like to express my deep disagreement with the way Klaus, the President of the Czech Republic, expresses his skepticism about a "stronger" European Union. Klaus uses the pronouns we and us, so it might seem like he is speaking on behalf of the whole Czech nation and expressing the opinion of all Czechs. That is definitely not the case. He doesn't speak for me, and opinion polls show a lot of support for the new E.U. constitution. So Klaus and the Czech Communist Party represent...
...Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic and a staunch opponent of the proposed E.U. constitution, was in the U.S. last week peddling his book On the Road to Democracy: The Czech Republic from Communism to Free Society. Before meeting with President George W. Bush at the White House, he stopped by TIME's Washington bureau for a chat...
...students at a school in Hildesheim in northern Germany regularly beat and humiliated a classmate, forcing him to kiss their shoes, eat chalk and masturbate. They filmed some of the incidents and circulated the footage via e-mail. "It's an increase in the level of perfidy," says Klaus Hurrelmann, professor of sociology at Bielefeld University. "The victims can no longer save face through silence." As the number and seriousness of incidents increases, many parents worry that the problem is spiraling out of control. They are demanding that schools and policymakers do something - and in response, governments and educational authorities...
...Schröder-Köpf had helped German drugstore chain Rossmann develop a range of dog accessories - from shampoos to fake bones - to be marketed with the help of the couple's dog, Holly. A share of the revenues will go to charity. So what's the problem? Klaus Ochsner, president of Germany's pet-trade industry body, the ZZF, suggested that most of the goods are made not by Germans but by low-wage, Far East producers. "The Chancellor's wife ... is insulting the pet industry and endangering German jobs," he told industry title Tier Bild. Rossmann claimed...
...heck, even the family’s butler Pagoda taps an emotional nerve as he stabs deceptive employer Royal Tenenbaum in the stomach, then loyally drags him to safety. But multi-dimensional characters are nowhere to be found aboard the cramped Life Aquatic, where the equivalent manservant role of Klaus Daimler is played with one-note efficiency by Willem Dafoe. Owen Wilson (as Zissou’s alleged illegitimate offspring) and Anjelica Huston (as Zissou’s dedicated wife) play their roles with such maddeningly detached insincerity that even their supposedly emotive scenes are one thin ironic line away...