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...kibbutz was a fashionable way for European teens to bridge the gap between school and university. As far as I could judge as a young man, widespread European sympathy for Israel--the sense that Israelis were the good guys in the Middle East--extended through the horrors of the Munich massacre in 1972 and the October...
...well as two students and a policeman, before turning the gun on himself. Police said the scene at the Gutenberg Gymnasium in the eastern city of Erfurt was a "picture of horror," with bodies strewn throughout the building. The shooting followed a similar revenge attack at a school outside Munich in February and came as parliament coincidentally voted to extend already strict controls on weapons ownership...
...said. Stoiber, who is the candidate of his Christian Social Union and the mainstream Christian Democrats, said the insolvency is "not the end for the Kirch group but the basis for a new beginning, with the majority of jobs saved." Kirch employs about 10,000 people, mainly in Munich...
Instead, Schill finds himself the focus of controversy. After a member of his party told a television interviewer that he had seen Schill use cocaine at his election victory celebration, the prosecutor's office opened a criminal investigation. Calling the charges "a perfidiously launched dirty campaign," Schill flew to Munich to take a drug test, which proved negative. But other problems are harder to shrug off. Mario Mettbach, a member of Schill's party who was appointed public- works minister, made the mistake of hiring his girlfriend as his personal assistant at a salary of $3,500 a month. When...
...attempt to draw viewers to Premiere, his pay-TV service, Kirch has in the past two years paid more than $2.5 billion for a slice of Formula One racing and the rights to screen live German football matches from Berlin to Munich. But the audiences have failed to appear - big time. The service is currently losing up to $2 million a day. Now, as his empire founders, Kirch has put his Formula One stake up for sale, with pundits predicting he will be lucky to get half his original outlay. Although the rights for soccer World Cups...