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...years ago, another German court declined to force Boere to serve his Dutch sentence in a German jail, saying he hadn't been present to defend himself at the 1949 trial. Ulrich Maass, a prosecutor for the Central Office for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Dortmund, then took up the case and succeeded in pushing it to trial. (See pictures of the faces...
...studying the U.S. ought to be more interesting than ever. But undergraduates across Europe have shifted their focus elsewhere, their disaffection a barometer of America's diminished standing in the world. "Students don't trust us," says Walter Grünzweig, a professor of American studies at Germany's Dortmund University, where the number of students applying for exchange programs to the U.S. has roughly halved since 2004. "We have to convince them we're not part of the propaganda branch of the American Embassy...
...Washington. But it is the U.S. that has been moving. President George W. Bush has not jumped to use military means against Iran, while Merkel has been stressing that everything needs to be done to find a diplomatic solution and a consensus among the major powers. Oliver Hauss Dortmund, Germany time's story on Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez made plain that the country's 26 million people are subjected to the desires of a tyrant. With all the loans, oil discounts and financing deals that Chávez grants to Venezuela's neighbors by way of increasing...
...What about the results of competitions? There was only a short "People" item on Shizuka Arakawa, the gold medalist in figure skating - and it was unfair. She is not, as you said, "a little-known Japanese figure skater." She is the winner of the 2004 World Championship, held in Dortmund, Germany. At Torino she did not, as you reported, "become a surprise star by keeping her tush off the ice." She was simply the best. Udo Wilhelm Marl, Germany Passage to India "Let's be friends" [March 6] stated that President Bush's visit to India would inaugurate...
...advertisers want the commuting audience, and, besides, "It's a quality read." Not everyone agrees. While the Metro may print more serious news than some of Britain's tabloid papers, "To aim at the mass market, freebies need to be [editorially] neutral," says Jo Groebel, director general of the Dortmund-based European Institute for the Media. Stripped of ideological or political bias, Metro lacks personality, insists Peter Cole, a professor of journalism at the University of Sheffield: "People don't refer to it as 'my Metro.'" As a basic, quick news service, it's only "like switching on the radio...