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...ter Forgács, both history and filmmaking are about attention to detail. Using clips from home movies, Forgács has sought to represent the history of East-Central Europe. After screening several of his films last weekend at the Harvard Film Archive (HFA), the Hungarian filmmaker discussed his relationship to his movies and how the audience reacts to the questions raised by his films. Personal experience has been vital in driving Forgács to make his movies. He spent 39 years living behind the Iron Curtain and, in the 1990s, was deeply affected by the massacres that...

Author: By Chris R. Kingston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Forgács Shows Human Side of Violent History | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...Conergy AG's Hamburg headquarters, on the top floors of a futuristic building with a striking, curved glass roof, Hans-Martin Rüter, founder and CEO of one of Germany's most successful solar-energy companies, muses over last year's acquisition of New Mexico-- based Dankoff Solar Products Inc. Outside, it's another gray day in a country that, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association, gets as much sunlight every year as Anchorage, Alaska. "It's a question of timing," explains Rüter, with a shrug and a smile, of the company he founded 10 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economic Development: The Future Is Bright | 10/23/2006 | See Source »

Conergy, which Rüter founded in 1998, is the world's largest solar-system-integration company, providing more renewable-energy systems than anyone else. They include solar panels for single-family homes in Germany; a rooftop solar system, the biggest of its kind, for the tiremaker Michelin; and solar electricity for off-grid villages in India. Conergy produces 30% of the components it sells. It also builds wind, biomass and solar-thermal systems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economic Development: The Future Is Bright | 10/23/2006 | See Source »

...ter says his company's multigreen model is best suited for the market. "With the kind of strong growth that the renewable market is in, we have to think in cycles," he says. "It's important not to be dependent on only one country, one customer or one product." With revenues of about $1 billion expected in 2006 vs. $672 million last year, the company is looking beyond Germany for growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economic Development: The Future Is Bright | 10/23/2006 | See Source »

...about it. For us it is only marketing. We don't put the swastika on our labels. We have canceled all the swastikas." German law bars any trade using Hitler portraits, swastikas or National Socialist symbols. What is not forbidden is importing Hitler wine for private use. Péter Zsolt, vice director of the new Budapest Holocaust Museum, says: "It's both sad that it can be sold and even more shocking that people buy it. We are trying to educate people as to how Hungary could get to the point where people were taken to gas chambers. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bitter Aftertaste | 7/18/2004 | See Source »

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