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...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...
...international-freight operations with the acquisition of former state-owned firms in Denmark and the Netherlands. Some worry that DB is assembling a dominant position in Europe's freight market that will enable it to counteract the market opening. "Old monopolies don't want to lose market share," gripes Klaus-J. Meyer, who runs a Brussels-based association of private rail-freight operators. Mario Monti, the E.U.'s tough antitrust Commissioner, made it clear at a rail conference last year that he won't tolerate merely shifting the monopoly; he warned state-owned flag carriers that they "do not have...
...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...
...guard ceremonies attract scores of tourists. But last week the unit was once again a source of national embarrassment, following revelations that nine soldiers stripped for a porn website and two others face criminal charges for posing as police and shaking down prostitutes. President Václav Klaus ordered the offenders punished, but critics say that's not enough. The Castle Guard has a long history of controversy and criminal misconduct. In 2000, police charged 10 soldiers with hazing new conscripts and in February, the unit's former psychologist received a one-year suspended sentence for raping a conscript. Klaus...