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That's not to say the folks from Stuttgart have forgotten the niceties. There are cupholders that can handle a grande latte, and there's an integrated bottle opener. (What, no corkscrew?) Coolest feature: you can plug your iPod into the audio system through a connection in the glove box. More important, the R-Class is as roomy as a suburb, even if the exterior design fails to excite. TIME's backseat test passenger--all 6 ft. 8 in. of him--hadn't had that much room in a car since he was 10 years younger and a foot shorter...
...Mercedes headquarters in Stuttgart, the question of what went wrong has been pored over in great detail. Senior managers are eager to move on, to talk about the future rather than to air their dirty linen in public. After several rounds of mutual recriminations in the German press over responsibility for the faulty electronics, management has struck an agreement with key suppliers such as Bosch not to blame each other. In their self-critical moments, executives say they ramped up production of the E-Class too quickly. before it was ready, and that they were overstretched by the introduction...
...Army Europe last week invited me to attend a conference for senior officers in Stuttgart, Germany. Many of the officers had recently returned from Iraq and Afghanistan; others were about to be deployed. As always, I was struck by how the core values of the military-service and discipline, both physical and intellectual-are so different from the perpetual American Mardi Gras. More than a few officers told me they were concerned by what was happening back home...
...world's richest and most successful artists. This week, a major retrospective, covering merely the last 15 of his 56 years' work, opens in Rome's Palazzo Venezia, showcasing 170 paintings, drawings and sculptures. The exhibition moves to the Würth Museum in Künzelsau, north of Stuttgart, Germany, in October and to Athens next summer, before heading to the U.S. in late 2006. The exhibition is sure to delight the many devotees of Botero's work, but it's certain to leave other art lovers nonplussed. Some critics regard his work as predictable and shallow - "popular...
...have adequate input regarding abilities on what is now the exotic tennis surface. That is why, in recent years, many of the top seeds leave the tournament suddenly and why one or two strong-serving kids, whose hot spell comes upon them here rather than in darkest Stuttgart, find themselves on Centre Court and on international TV. Indeed, the tournament's size favors heedless youth. In a draw containing 128 players, the eventual victor must win seven matches in two weeks, some of which are bound to be played on ill-kempt outer courts, some of which are bound...