Word: austria
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BRUSSELS: The Euro is real, and it arrives in eight months and six days. The European Union took a giant leap forward Wednesday by officially recommending 11 nations to be included in the new currency next January: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. "We are at the end of an historic process," said EU president Jacques Santer...
...strange act of mercy, the Financial Times doesn't tell you that the United States placed second to last in the advanced mathematics division of the exam. American students taking pre-calculus, calculus or Advanced Placement calculus scored 59 points below the international average, and only 6 points above Austria, the lowest scoring nation in the advanced division. William H. Schmidt, an educational statistician quoted in the New York Times gets the message across: "Even the very small percentage of students taking Advanced Placement courses are not among the world's best...
...team. Klug, a former high school All-Star quarterback, has the brightest chance for a win over the Canadians. Europeans, who have long dominated the Alpine events, still could sweep the giant slalom. "I wouldn't be surprised if the podium was one-two-three for Austria," says Fawcett. On the women's race course, Lisa Kosglow, 24, of Boise, Ind., overcame a rough early-season start to win the Mount Bachelor giant slalom and rise to medal contention. Her competition may come in the form of Rosey Fletcher, 22, of Girdwood, Alaska, whose pre-Olympic results earned...
...paintings whose ownership is disputed by descendants of Viennese Jewish families [ART, Jan. 19], Robert Hughes described the "impeccable conduct" of the present Austrian government in dealing with the restoration of art stolen by the Nazis. If this were true, that government would applaud and support the seizure, given Austria's rather wretched history of restitution over the past decades. Politically inspired or not, the seizure does have a semblance of morality, an aspect of this affair that Hughes dismisses. This action might, at the very least, force all museums to take a good hard look at the history...
...Holocaust Art Restitution Project, a group set up last fall in Washington to document Jewish cultural losses under Nazism, got into the act and started urging MOMA and its chairman, Ronald Lauder, not to return the paintings. (As it happens, Lauder was ambassador to Austria from 1986 to 1987 and is a notable Schiele collector.) In response the Leopold Foundation proposed that an international tribunal be set up to examine the Schieles' true ownership, and it pledged to comply with the tribunal's findings. Constance Lowenthal, director of the World Jewish Congress's Commission for Art Recovery (whose chairman...