Word: volker
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...based on assimilation, with the minority group ready to become part of mainstream society, adopting the host nation's traditions and - above all - its language. This is what lies behind the successful U.S. concept of the melting pot, whereas the competing ideal of the salad bowl has mostly failed. Volker Schmitgen, Weilheim, Germany...
...free. One will become eligible for parole, and the second is appealing to the German President for early release. The prospect has stirred calls from some that Germany give no quarter to those who "mercilessly killed wives, men and fathers with the aim of destroying our democracy," as Volker Kauder, leader of the ruling Christian Democratic Union faction in the Bundestag, said recently. Others insist on a cooler approach. "Terrorism is a challenge for all of us," said Wolfgang Kraushaar, a political scientist at Hamburg's Institute for Social Research and co-author and editor of a 2006 history...
...bolster its presence overseas to levels not seen since World War II to address emerging threats from terrorism and weapons proliferation. That would be quite a change. Germans, mindful of their own history, have only in recent years agreed to dispatch troops abroad, mainly for peacekeeping or humanitarian missions. Volker Perthes, director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, an independent think tank, says the photos - and the response to them - demonstrate how unprepared Germany has been to find itself in a far more violent and unpredictable conflict than the one it signed up for back...
...tries to mask the stench of decadent French society with fragrances distilled from his victims' bodies (Dustin Hoffman and Alan Rickman are tipped to star). As Hollywood reinvigorates its product with injections of European culture, Tykwer's compatriots are relaxing and becoming more catholic in their approach to filmmaking. Volker Schlöndorff, the director of such classics as The Tin Drum and Homo Faber, whose latest, The Ninth Day, is about a Luxembourg priest in a Nazi concentration camp, interprets this as a sign of confidence. "For years young German directors have tried to make genre movies that just...
...reason you're seeing the Apollo-like configuration come back," says Volker Roth, a Boeing engineer, "is basically its safety and robustness during the first 100 miles and the last 100 miles of any space trip." Such a comparatively simple vehicle could be ready relatively soon, but the loose time frame of the Bush plan doesn't call for the craft to fly before 2014. That decade-away projection puzzles Charles Allen, head of Boeing's Orbital Space Program. "By 2007 we could be doing major systems tests," he says. "I don't see any problem with that...