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...most classrooms since 1998 - turned out to be just as bad. The new rules are scheduled to become permanent next year after a seven-year interim period in which both the old and new spellings were accepted. But two weeks ago two of Germany's biggest media companies - Spiegel-Verlag, owner of Der Spiegel, the country's largest newsmagazine, and Axel Springer Verlag, which owns Bild, Germany's biggest circulation newspaper - announced they were going back to the old rules. "Out of a feeling of responsibility for future generations, we recommend to others that they too put a halt...
...prevent speculation on whether he dyes his hair. Now German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has won a court case forcing a publisher to remove a photograph from the cover of a fictional thriller. Why? Because Schröder thinks it looks too much like him. Publisher Betzel Verlag says it has recalled copies of The End of the Chancellor - The Final Shot. In the tale, the pharmacist hero shoots a German Chancellor he blames for his business bankruptcy. A spokeswoman for Betzel says Schröder is never mentioned in the novel; at issue was a small keyhole-type...
...FRANK WÖCKEL, business manager of Berlin's Eitmann-Verlag publishers, on why the firm, which prints antismoking books, bans employees from smoking, even at home on their own time
...borrowed heavily to keep it running. Kirch also offered investors a "put option" - a promise to get their money back if they wanted to quit the company's far-flung businesses. Big players - Murdoch has an option on KirchPayTV and German newspaper publisher Axel Springer Verlag has one on ProSiebenSat.1 - began the year by demanding their money back at a time when the pay television operation had left the company with no cash...
When some in Germany began looking into Sack's book, they concluded that it is precisely the sort of scandalous work that I demonstrated it to be. Once his book was thus exposed by a German writer in a prominent newspaper, his distinguished German publisher, Piper Verlag (with whom I had no contact whatsoever) took the highly unusual (and highly unprofitable) step of destroying the entire print run of the book and cancelling publication shortly before its release date. It was clear that the book was more in the genre of fiction than of reportage or history, that...