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Tomas Klvana will focus on the media’s role in the recovery of civic society in the Czech Republic. He recently served as spokesperson and policy adviser to Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus, and has also been deputy editor-in-chief of a leading Czech daily newspaper and a professor at the University of South Maine...
...people, language and culture. So the Institute launched a publicity campaign, targeted at British students, teachers and cultural bodies, which will fill mailboxes with postcards featuring übermodel Claudia Schiffer and the slogan learn German, and look good. There's a serious side to this, says the Institute's Klaus Krischok: "There are streets in Germany where Nazis used to walk. These streets have changed a lot, so why not change your perception?" Advertisers - German ones, anyway - are applauding. "The British do not believe we can mock ourselves, so we have to show that we can," says Ralph Blome, manager...
...developing the property itself. "We didn't just want short-term liquidity from a quick sale, but a higher level of profitability from being involved in the development," says a spokeswoman. That's a controversial policy. "What is the state doing in the role of developer, anyway?" gripes Klaus Groenke, a Berlin developer whose €110 million bid for the Leipziger Platz site was turned down because TLG wanted to be involved...
...DIED. LORD SHAWCROSS, 101, Britain's chief prosecutor of Nazis at the Nuremberg war- crimes trials; in Cowbeech, England. Shawcross also prosecuted William Joyce, a Nazi propagandist better known as Lord Haw-Haw, and Klaus Fuchs and Alan Nunn May, physicists convicted of giving atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. He later lamented that the Nuremberg trials didn't deter Idi Amin and Pol Pot from their own "odious crimes...
...which rents out drivers and train personnel - some of whom have been trained to operate in more than one country. Since it started in 1999, MEV's staff has grown from 50 people to 250, and sales have tripled to 325 million. "It's an incredibly exciting market," says Klaus-Peter H?usler, the co-chief executive. Where does he find all those drivers and train staff? Simple: they're people who have been laid...