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Interior Minister Rudolf Seiters, a confidant of Chancellor Helmut Kohl's, took responsibility for mishandling the case and resigned in July, closely followed by the chief federal prosecutor, Alexander von Stahl. The head of the antiterrorism division, Rainer Hoffmeyer, has been sharply criticized and may be forced to resign. There have been so many demands for reforming or disbanding GSG-9 that Kohl paid a highly publicized visit to the unit to praise the dead officer and deplore "attempts to make a martyr of his murderer...
...gross about $2.2 billion a year. Recently, though, home shopping has spiffed up its image, thanks in part to media mogul Barry Diller. Since joining QVC as chairman six months ago, Diller has buffed the industry's reputation by luring Saks Fifth Avenue and famous designers like Diane von Furstenberg to sell goods on television. And in a move that could further help clean up and expand the business, he proposed last week a $1.2 billion merger between QVC, the nation's largest video retailer, and the No. 2 operator, troubled Home Shopping Network...
...Von Mehren says two distinct groups of students existed at the College in his time: one which came for the academics, and others "that were here primarily for family reasons." But today, he says, the groups have largely merged into...
...Von Mehren remembers a "very considerable diversity of political opinion," with people polarized on both sides of the war debate, before the attack on Pearl Harbor. "The Harvard Student Union was very divided in the summer of 1940," Fisher recalls...
...true that Harvard faculty don't go out and build buddy-buddy relationships with all students," says von Mehren, who nevertheless feels that, both in his time and now, "the students who were really intellectually committed had very good relations with faculty members...