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...worsening back condition; in Kuala Lumpur. After complaining that he'd lost feeling in his left leg, Anwar was rushed from prison to the hospital, where medical tests diagnosed kidney, nerve and spinal damage. Anwar's family is lobbying the government to let him leave Malaysia for treatment in Munich. Anwar is awaiting the result of his final appeal on a controversial 1998 conviction and nine-year prison term for sodomy...
...Germany, the Taxpayers' Federation regularly generates headlines by publishing a "black book" of wasteful practices. "We've pretty much reached the limit," rages Michael Jäger, who helps run the federation's Bavarian chapter. Among recent examples in Jäger's backyard: an artificial lake near Munich airport that's costing almost €20 million to build instead of the budgeted €11 million; a €76,500 traffic light in Garmisch Partenkirchen that only worked for a day before it was dismantled; and a gas station on the grounds of the Bavarian Economics Ministry reserved for government...
...members is 21.3%, while it is nearly 30% in the rest of the E.U. It is 38% in Germany and 34% in France. That's why many believe that firms may flee France and Germany and head east. Dalia Marin, an economics professor at the University of Munich, says that German multinationals created some 780,000 jobs in Eastern Europe between 1990 and 2001, resulting in a net loss of 90,000 jobs in Germany. Of course, companies weigh more than the tax rate when deciding where to set up shop. According to Marin, taxation ranked ninth, behind factors like...
Mahler's Eighth may or may not be the greatest symphony ever composed, but it's surely the loudest: at its premiere in Munich in 1910, the impresario called it with Barnumesque flair the "Symphony of a Thousand" to convey the immense scale of the work, which requires a double orchestra, a pipe organ, three large choirs and eight vocal soloists. At a performance of the piece last month by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, the forces were just shy of 500, more than enough to achieve the sense of grandeur that Mahler envisioned. In the finale, when the massed musicians...
...Bust Investigators in Italy named 4,713 people, 4,400 of them doctors, for allegedly taking bribes from British drug firm GlaxoSmithKline to prescribe Glaxo drugs rather than cheaper or generic alternatives. A similar probe in Germany two years ago saw several then employees fined; earlier this month, a Munich court gave one person a fine and a two-year suspended prison sentence...