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...center and the former East German secret police closed investigations into that part of his history without detecting any enthusiasm for Hitler's regime. Ratzinger's family was solidly anti-Nazi. But unlike John Paul, Ratzinger had no childhood Jewish playmates. His older brother Georg told German philosopher Raphaela Schmid, "I didn't know what a Jew was." That changed when their family moved from a small Bavarian village to the town of Traunstein, where in 1933, papal biographer John Allen reports, a DO NOT BUY FROM THE JEW sign hung in the main square. In an interview, Benedict recalled...
...trend with record sales - nearly 185,000 tons, an increase of 2% over 2007, sold domestically and in 140 export markets. And while figures for the first quarter of this year are not available yet, "so far we have heard positive and optimistic reports from chocolate companies," says Franz Schmid, managing director of Chocosuisse, an umbrella organization for Switzerland's chocolate industry. (Read a TIME story about nude hiking in Switzerland...
...early to tell whether 2009 sales will match last year's, says Chocosuisse's Schmid. But some Switzerland-based chocolate producers are confident that the industry's immediate future is far from bleak. Lindt, makers of the iconic golden bunnies, predicts its 2009 sales are likely to increase by between 2 and 5% - short of its target of 6 to 8%, but still not bad in the current economy. While Nestlé, which manufactures, among other brands, Cailler and KitKat, is not releasing figures until the end of April, company chairman Peter Brabeck recently told Swiss newsmagazine Weltwoche that even...
...This must be a nightmare for people who have to make these decisions,” said math professor Wilfried Schmid...
Planning for a 30 percent reduction in the endowment would be “impossible without the hiring freeze,” said mathematics professor Wilfried Schmid...