Word: stoffel
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...Giovanna Stefanel-Stoffel, 54, who together with her husband runs Stofanel Investment, the company behind the Marthashof development, isn't Swabian. Nor does the petite Italian with the friendly brown eyes look like a ruthless capitalist. When she describes Marthashof, she talks about her love of nature and how she would like to recreate the atmosphere of the Italian village she was born in. Stefanel-Stoffel is surprised by the disapproval that her project has sparked among some of the neighborhood's residents. "We're putting our name, money and know-how into this," she says. "We want...
...local community center, has experienced the rapid change of his neighborhood firsthand. He talks about how suddenly young academics and artists, "people who like to sleep in in the morning," many of them from the West, began flocking to the formerly working-class-dominated neighborhood. Unlike Stefanel-Stoffel, he's not shocked by the recent outbreak of vandalism - despite the fact that only a few weeks ago, a car was set alight right outside his window. "It's nothing in comparison to what happened in the mid-'90s," Bernsee says, referring to a wave of similar incidents at that time...
...Given Berlin's track record of leftist violence, which still erupts each year during the traditional May Day demonstrations by left-wing groups, it is unlikely that the conflict over the remaining affordable living space in Eastern Berlin will be settled anytime soon. Stefanel-Stoffel, for her part, is not planning to give up. "I'll also recommend to my friends to invest in Berlin," she says. "The prices you get here won't stay for long." And Technau and his friends aren't going to back down either: "We'll continue to speak up, until something will change." Seems...
Last week, only two days after the conference issued a 33-page proposal for constitutional reforms, the prospect of change received a crushing blow. Stoffel Botha, Natal's ruling National Party boss, rejected the reforms, saying they failed to protect Natal's whites from "domination" by blacks. The last, best hope seemed destined to meet the same fate as so many other attempts to achieve racial harmony. The white opposition Progressive Federal Party, which had participated in the conference, termed the rejection "a reaction from bigots who seem to have a death wish for South Africa...
...Arab man who moved from southern Germany to Bonn to send his children to the school. He was suspected of credit-card fraud, but while searching his apartment police found bomb-making instructions, household materials that could be used to make explosives, and a handwritten will. But Alfred Stoffel, the prosecutor handling the case, declined to press charges. "What we found wasn't sufficient to take to court," he says. The senior investigator dismisses Stoffel's decision, saying: "We believe we had concrete clues." Investigators say that some of the people who frequent the mosque at the academy have...