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...think it was Christmas in August. But instead of at the North Pole, Santa's workshop is tucked away in a suburban Omaha, Neb., office park where a red-bearded elf named Chip Davis is getting ready for the big day. Creator of the phenomenally successful New Age band Mannheim Steamroller, he is arranging a 12-city Yuletide concert tour and the fall release of his new Celebration CD, a compendium of what has become the best-selling Christmas music in America...
...sick of rap, grunge and heavy metal, Chip Davis could be your musicmeister. You may not have heard of him, but his uplifting, rhythmic arrangements are some of the most listened-to music in America. Sales of Mannheim Steamroller albums, which feature instruments from harpsichord to synthesizer, with a heavy dose of strings, are past the 32 million--album mark, and that's not even counting 10 million other records Davis sold in the 1970s after he co-wrote a sound track for the hit movie Convoy, starring Kris Kristofferson. In the past 15 years, Davis has racked up more...
...nation's cartel office. Following the tracks laid down by pioneers like Rail4Chem, more than 20 such private operators now run freight services - and some local passenger trains - in Germany, and other companies have sprung up to provide them with services. Included is a company based in Mannheim called MEV 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...
...German arms merchant who illegally sold a giant drill to Iraq in 1999 has left a gaping hole in Germany's efforts to restrict the export of sensitive military-use technology. A Mannheim court last week sentenced Bernd Schompeter, 59, to five years and three months in jail after ruling that he had broken an export embargo with the drill, which can be used to manufacture cannon capable of firing chemical or nuclear weapons. It also handed a suspended sentence to Willi Heinz Ribbeck, 53, a sales manager at the machinery company that made the drill. The convictions embarrass Germany...
...believe it when I see it. Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, may have changed his tune, but others have not. Ask me 30 years from now whether this was a watershed or just another "Sinn Feint." FLASH FIASCO Mannheim, Germany...