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...Hong Kong (intercontinental.com) was one of Asia's best-kept secrets. Landscaped terraces, a private solarium and a Jacuzzi with an eye-popping view of the Hong Kong skyline were some of the features that lured guests from movie star Jean-Claude Van Damme to former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. They, and anyone else lucky enough to have spent a night there, probably came away with the feeling that the two-bedroom facility was all but unimprovable. Not true. After a $2.5 million makeover, 1600 has reopened as the hotel's presidential suite. An additional story, three new bedrooms...
...billion chunk of the retail economy. Everyone from fashion designers to cosmetics companies to small-town malls is praying that Lundgren's strategy works. Department stores have struggled for years: they've cut service, cut prices, cut inventory and still lost customers to cheaper (Wal-Mart) or more stylish (Kohl's, Target) discounters and to specialty stores (Nordstrom) with top-end service. Millions of Americans, especially in the nation's midsection, will soon have their first chance to shop at Macy's. The company now has to give them a reason...
...DIED. JOHANNES RAU, 75, former German President and premier of North Rhine-Westphalia, the country's industrial heartland; in Berlin. Rau, a Social Democrat, failed in a bid to unseat Chancellor Helmut Kohl in 1987 before embarking on his five-year presidential term in 1999. No stranger to controversy, Rau suggested in a farewell speech that negativity among German leaders had driven the country toward "collective depression...
...market-oriented policies. Still, the chancellorship is a major accomplishment for the daughter of a Lutheran pastor raised in East Germany. She had studied physics and taken a teaching post, only entering politics at the time of German reunification. Merkel, once a prot?g?e of longtime Christian Democrat chancellor Helmut Kohl, is widely respected for her intelligence and her toughness in party negotiations, qualities that were on display over the past few weeks as she stuck to her guns despite criticism of her campaign performance. That toughness will be further tested in the coming weeks as Germany seeks to forge...
...mass destruction were hidden in Saddam Hussein's Iraq.) Schröder was not an active '68er. But he too absorbed the values of the protesters and their hunger for social justice. His ready grin and populist touch were for many young Germans a welcome relief from Helmut Kohl, his predecessor as Chancellor, whose fondness for woollen sweaters and oompah brass bands reminded many of a past their parents and grandparents preferred not to discuss. Schröder's ease in front of the camera and on the stump helped his party recoup a seven-point deficit in opinion polls...