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...thoroughgoing review of the causes of abuse, writing, "Part of it is the question of celibacy." That sort of questioning is now taking place even in Benedict's former archdiocese. "Married priests should be accepted in the Catholic Church," says Rainer Schiessler, a priest at Munich's St. Maximilian Church. (See 10 surprising facts about the world's oldest Bible...
...experts warned that the government would be sending the wrong message by striking such a shady deal. "The German rule of law obliges the state to tax people equally, but the state should also not deal with criminals," Moris Lehner, a professor of international law at Munich's Ludwig Maximilian University, tells TIME. "The informant acquired the data through a criminal act, and the government has to weigh up its obligations very carefully." Peter Schaar, the German data-protection commissioner, added that a deal could "encourage other people to sell data, and this would lead to a black market...
...romantic and poetic love. There is very little dialogue—all of which is delivered in German, adding to the otherness of the film’s overall impression—and most information is relayed through the voiced-over narrative confessions of Aya and her soulmate Temelko (Maximilian Mauff), the two romantic protagonists. At the start of the film, they are born on the same day, in adjoining beds, and from that moment on, they know they belong together. When they reach 14, Temelko attempts to sleep with Aya. After asking her mysterious, intimidating grandmother?...
...This is a paradigm shift in German corporate culture. The cozy times are over," says Manuel Theisen, a management professor at Munich's Ludwig Maximilian University and a leading expert on German supervisory boards...
...Rififi scenario was replayed, more for laughs than for suspense, in Topkapi. The gang comprises not the standard tough guys but con artistes on a lark, to steal a jewel-encrusted scimitar from a hall in the Topkapi museum. Maximilian Schell leads a troupe of some of the major muggers of international cinema: Mercouri, Akim Tamiroff, Peter Ustinov (who won an Oscar), Titos Vandis and Robert Morley. But the more valuable member is the muscular Gilles Segal, as the acrobat whose job is to be lowered by rope into the hall from a high window, then remove the case, nick...