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...Unfortunately for Daniel Hoevels, a 30-year-old actor from Hamburg, those pages from a murder-mystery came to life last Saturday night during a performance at the Burgtheater of Mary Stuart, Friedrich Schiller's play about the wretched life of Mary Queen of Scots. Rushed to the nearby Lorenz Bohler hospital having sliced through skin and fat tissue but thankfully not his main artery, Hoevels was fortunate to survive. "Just a little deeper," said Wolfgang Lenz, a doctor who treated him, "and he would have been drowning in his own blood." (See the Top 10 oddball news stories...
FREED. GUNTER PARCHE, 39, assailant of tennis star Monica Seles; by a judge; in Hamburg, Germany. Almost more shocking than the courtside stabbing of Seles during an April tournament was the decision handed down in the case by Judge Elke Bosse -- a suspended sentence. Bosse cited Parche's psychological problems and his expressions of remorse for the attack, which Parche claims was motivated by a desire to boost the prospects of Seles' rival Steffi Graf. The 19-year-old Seles was appalled by the sentence. ''What kind of message does this send to the world?'' she asked...
...arrival of a Hitler waxwork unleashed such passion in Berlin? After all, a waxen representation of the dictator has been on display in the German city of Hamburg for 60 years, without causing any serious disruptions. Some argue that it is the proximity to the site from which Hitler actually directed the Nazi terror that makes the issue particularly sensitive. But the German daily Suddeutsche Zeitung has a different theory: "Berlin cherishes a culture of civil disobedience", the newspaper wrote. Other commentators pointed out that Frank L. "of course" lived in Kreuzberg, a Berlin district known for its squatter...
...League Championship, the focal point of the men’s season. Penn will return to defend the title and the Crimson will look to improve on last year’s fifth-place finish. The Ancient Eight will gather to play the Ballyowen Golf Course in Hamburg, N.J., a links-style golf course known for its few trees and fast, undulating greens. In this weekend’s tournament, Dartmouth and Brown, finished behind Harvard in fifth and sixth place, respectively. Yale, however, remains the team to beat. —Staff writer Elizabeth A. Joyce can be reached...
...Monday, more than three dozen prosecuting attorneys and several hundred police swarmed out to search offices and private homes of other suspected tax evaders in Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart, Ulm and Hamburg. And prosecutors said their work was just beginning...