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...judged Missouri's greatest cultural critic in 1880 regarding what he called "the Awful German Language," and it is probably safe to say that the popular appraisal of the tongue has not moved far since. A fair verdict? As Germany emerges from the partial eclipse known as "the Postwar," the question has fresh urgency: politicians, businessmen and, dare it be whispered, even journalists now need German more than they have for half a century. One of the hallmarks, after all, of great-power status is that others -- even those who hail from other great powers -- must learn to speak your...
...then in 1517, the political divisions also became religious -- and correspondingly bloodier. An obscure monk named Martin Luther nailed to the church door in Wittenberg his 95 theses against the Roman Church's sale of indulgences, partial pardons for souls in purgatory. The Lutheran faith, subsequently known as Protestantism, spread rapidly across northern Germany. Then, in the fratricidal ordeal known as the Thirty Years' War (1618-48), the French, Swedes and other nations joined in playing out their political and religious rivalries on German soil. Much of Germany was devastated and the starving survivors reduced to misery...
...Administration presented a partial -- and controversial -- plan to protect the northern spotted owl, a threatened species...
That is a partial tally of deliberate affronts to the audience in 15 acclaimed stage shows from East and West Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Bremen, Bochum and Schwerin. All were imported for, or staged locally to enrich, last month's Berlin Theatertreffen, the city's 27th annual festival of productions from around the German-speaking world. Although the doctrinaire Marxism of Bertolt Brecht, Germany's greatest 20th century playwright, has fallen out of fashion, his zeal to shake up bourgeois spectators still seems to inspire his artistic successors...
...timing of Fang's departure was probably linked to next week's summit of the seven leading industrial countries. Beijing wants them to lift their partial ban on loans. Another motive: the Capitol Hill debate over whether to restore China's most-favored-nation status...