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Beginning with the story of barbarian tribes along the Rhine in the first century B.C., Ozment’s book identifies a resilience and pride that is deeply rooted in the Germans’ past. Surviving endless Roman attacks in the early years, it is remarkable that the Germans came to control the entire empire 500 years later...
...says. "That worked well enough after the attacks in Madrid. But the decisive question is, what is the optimal situation for effective crisis management and to coordinate prevention strategies?" One obvious solution, proposed by Jürgen Rüttgers, head of the Christian Democratic Union in North Rhine Westphalia, is to create a strong federal domestic intelligence agency and put the 16 state offices under its control, then give the BKA greater investigative powers and move the agency to Berlin. The trouble is, the states refuse to cede any power to the federal government. State officials say what...
...actors and understand what they're saying). Meanwhile, the German Export Union is being revamped to focus on promoting German films abroad, complete with a budget nudge (from €3.5 million to €5.8 million). But according to critics like Konrad Pechen, director of the Film Association of North Rhine-Westphalia, the new law will push producers to make art-house movies for international juries instead of more popular crowd pleasers - which could hurt the popularity of German film back home. Last year the market share for local films in local cinemas rose to 17.5% (up from...
...century skyline, from the Arc de Triomphe and Sacré Coeur to that most universally recognized of structures, the Eiffel Tower. Central Paris has no high-rises and most of the residential neighborhoods mirror the human scale of the Seine, which lacks the brawn of the Thames or the Rhine. This is no accident. The French capital is still largely drawn along the imperial lines laid down by Parisian prefect Georges-Eugène Haussmann, who had very clear ideas of just what a Parisian building ought to look like. Now that classic picture is being challenged by Haussmann...
...interview with The Boston Globe, Collins described his regiment’s advance to the Rhine River...