Word: klaus
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...CHARGED. JOSEF ACKERMANN, 54, chief executive of Deutsche Bank; with breach of trust after sanctioning more than $100 million in payments to departing executives of Mannesmann, including chief executive Klaus Esser, in the final days of its 2000 takeover by Vodafone Group; in D?sseldorf. According to Ackermann, the payments were awarded as part of severance pay. If found guilty, Ackermann could face up to 10 years in prison...
...tall sylvan sage reluctantly drawn into the conflict, has the stately, smiling gravity of George Bernard Shaw. And the digitized Gollum is wonderfully complex, a damned creature slipping in and out of his own private hell. At first a whiny Jar Jar Binks as he might be played by Klaus Kinski, Gollum soon reveals a complex pathos and a facility of expression no human actor could match. He is another example of Jackson's pursuit of a tone both entertaining and serious. No smirking allowed...
...vivid with mortal melodrama and some potent new characters. Treebeard, an Ent (shepherd of the woods) reluctantly drawn into the conflict, has the stately, smiling gravity of Bernard Shaw. And the digitized Gollum is wonderfully complex. At first a whiny Jar Jar Binks as he might be played by Klaus Kinski, Gollum soon reveals a complex pathos and a facility of expression no human actor could have matched. He is one more example of Jackson's pursuit of a tone both entertaining and serious. Other fantasy films may dabble in facetiousness. Here there is no smirking allowed. Tolkien, the Oxford...
...here comes the interesting part," says Dr. Klaus Kuettner, professor of biochemistry at Rush--Presbyterian--St. Luke's. "The ankle joint responds better than the knee joint to osteogenic proteins." Is that why the ankle rarely gets osteoarthritis? "We don't know," says Kuettner, "but it's a hint in that direction...
...terror attacks in Europe, a growing number of German investigators are calling for an overhaul of the country's internal security apparatus. "Everyone hears about the problems with the FBI and CIA, but that's because they've come clean and are doing something about their weaknesses," says Klaus Jansen, an investigator with Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) who spent five years as a liaison officer in the U.S. "Our system is an even bigger mess than theirs is, and leads are falling through the cracks." Germany's fractured security system dates back to the aftermath of World...