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...ring hollow. Rice also came bearing gifts, including the President's promise to spend $350 million to bolster Palestinian reforms. Bush last week praised the Palestinian Authority in his State of the Union address for "showing the power of freedom to break old patterns of violence and failure." German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder reciprocated by offering to expand his country's training of Iraqi police. By the time Rice concludes her trip in Luxembourg, will she have made the case that Europe and the U.S. are back on the same wavelength? Not likely. There are plenty of other issues...
...slated to stand in for John Paul at this week's meeting in Rome with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Virtually every major internal Vatican decision and document lands on Sodano's desk. Perhaps the strongest moral voice behind the Pope is Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, 77. The German prelate, who has headed the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which oversees moral and theological issues, since 1981, is a trusted ally, who in the past has drawn fire for cracking down on Catholic thinkers who stray from orthodoxy. Ratzinger has been unyielding in enforcing traditional doctrines...
Roland Emmerich had to brace himself. The German director of such U.S. blockbusters as Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow was leaving behind the warm breezes of Hollywood to plunge into wintry Berlin, because he heads the judging panel at this year's Berlin Film Festival, which starts this week. That a Hollywood player like Emmerich was chosen for the job hints at the profound changes that have swept the German movie industry. Though his country's art house élite despises his commercial movies, he can expect a warm welcome this year from a film community that...
...services company, says it broke no rules, but it's under investigation by German prosecutors and British regulators, and the company has put the traders involved on leave of absence. Last week European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet called for a "thorough" inquiry, while newspapers published internal memos that discussed strategies to "kill off" rivals - one scheme was reportedly dubbed "Dr. Evil" by the firm's staff, after the Austin Powers villain. Such language is typical. Bond trading "is like a blood sport," says Cari Lynn, who spent two years trading and has just written a book about...
Members also watched a presentation about the effectiveness of online CUE course evaluations, which were piloted this fall in German and math classes, as well as Freshman Seminars...