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...suddenly fine. After all, the economy was in recession through the first half of 2003, and unemployment rose by 305,000 over the past year, bringing the jobless total to 10.4%. "What kind of upswing is it when you have increasing unemployment?" asks Ullrich Heilemann, vice president of the Rhine-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research (RWI). "The bad days may be gone but we're not in heaven yet." How do economists explain the incipient turnaround? The euro has weakened from its recent highs against the dollar, aiding big exporters like steelmaker ThyssenKrupp and electronics giant Siemens. The U.S. economy...
...they have been secretly moved out of Iraq into another country, or 3) Saddam voluntarily chose to destroy the wmd without maintaining any record or evidence of their destruction. For those who believe that No. 3 is the correct explanation, I would offer them a magnificent bridge over the Rhine at a bargain price. Marvin Clark Frankfurt
...story from the East," says director Wolfgang Becker. "I'm a man and make films about women. I live in the 21st century and make films about the 19th century. I think that's more complicated." Becker, 48, moved to West Berlin from a small town in North Rhine-Westphalia as a university student in 1974 and was a frequent visitor to the East. "I knew the city, I knew the people there and I knew how it felt," he says. Much of the film's humor derives from the increasingly desperate attempts by the son, Alex (Daniel...
Schumann, the composer Daverio studied and wrote about extensively, attempted to kill himself by throwing himself in the Rhine in 1854. He died two years later...
It’s no small wonder that so many people want to study abroad, and that everyone who does so seems to love it. Who wouldn’t want to coast through easy classes while doing little work and enjoying sunsets on the Rhine, the Rhone, the Tiber or the Yangtze, rather than grinding out tough problem sets on the bank of the pedestrian Charles...