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...today are as adept with wap phones and Sony PlayStations as their Western counterparts. Meanwhile, gearheads like Lubos Lavicka, a 36-year-old from Broumov in the Czech Republic, find that getting a job in Western Europe has never been easier, or more lucrative. His starting salary at a Munich software company will be upwards of $50,000. In the Czech Republic he made around...
...find their feet online. Other incubators are revising the point at which they become involved with fledgling companies. "The incubator euphoria died out pretty quickly, and many companies that began as incubators are repositioning themselves as pure VCs," says Uwe Fleischhauer, a partner in the consultancy Mackewicz & Partner in Munich. Says Paolo Chiari, investments coordinator of Italy's E@rchimede, "We started off in March 2000 as an incubator but by November decided to shift our activity toward that of an accelerator. So instead of investing in businesses which were in fact no more than an idea...
...Arafat has delayed the hopes and aspirations of the Palestinian Arabs through decades of terrorism. Had the Palestinian Arabs had a Gandhi to lead them instead of an Arafat, they would have had their state years ago. Arafat's war against Israel, including the massacre of Israeli athletes at Munich in '72 and the murder of 21 schoolchildren in Ma'alot in '74, isolated the Palestinian cause and resulted in the Palestinians-as-terrorists stereotype. The latest round of terrorism Arafat has launched against Israel has devastated the Palestinian economy. MacLeod ignored the context in which the Palestinian refugees were...
...DIED. KRISTINA S?DERBAUM, 88, Swedish-born actress who became a star of Third Reich propaganda films; in Munich. S?derbaum's movie career took off in 1930s Germany, where her blond, Nordic looks encapsulated Nazi racial ideology. Married to Veit Harlan, one of the main film directors of the Nazi era, S?derbaum starred in a number of his works, including the profoundly anti-Semitic Jud S?ss...
...group formed in 1997 when Australian Alex Murray-Leslie and American Melissa Logan, both 30, were students at the Munich Academy of Art, and German Kiki Moorse, 33, was a fixture of the surrounding art scene. They started Chicks on Speed as a multimedia art piece that exploited the notion of marketing an imaginary band. "Merchandising, but the band doesn't exist--that was the whole idea," says Moorse...