Word: ludwig
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...front to battle Netscape. Line managers killed million-dollar projects and refocused entire divisions in the space of hours. In one instance, the company decided it needed to jump-start an effort to develop programs in the Java computer language, a key to creating Internet applications. So John Ludwig, a rising Microsoft star who runs the Internet tools group, simply walked into a room of programmers who were working on something else and told them to stop. Microsoft appreciated their efforts, he said, but a bigger challenge had emerged. "We had to get on the stick on Java," he says...
DIED. PETER LUDWIG, 71, chocolate manufacturer and art connoisseur; of a ruptured colon; in Aachen, Germany. His collection of 144 illuminated medieval manuscripts was the most important assembled by an individual...
...Ludwig van Beethoven probably thought he was taking his secrets to the grave when he died in 1827. He thought wrong. While the composer was decorously interred in his beloved Vienna, most of his hair wasn't; souvenir-hunting fans snipped off so much of his silver mane before burial that he went to his tomb almost bald...
...DIED. LUDWIG FREIHERR VON HAMMERSTEIN-EQUORD, 76, anti-Nazi conspirator; in Berlin. Part of the ill-fated July 1944 attempt by German officers to kill Hitler and end World War II, Hammerstein-Equord helped seize army headquarters. When it was retaken by SS troops, he escaped and hid until the defeat of the Third Reich...
...died in 1966. But Ropke would probably have mixed feelings about Buchanan's populism. The economist served on Germany's unemployment commission until Hitler took power in 1933 and fired him. Ropke went into exile in Switzerland but in the late 1940s served as a top adviser to Ludwig Erhard, architect of Germany's "economic miracle." Ropke warned of "the tendency for the increasingly centralized state of our times to surround like a parasitical vine both society and economy." In books such as A Humane Economy, he advocated a "Third Way"--neither freewheeling capitalism nor a state-run economy...