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...others - English dominates international diplomacy and business, and is the language used on 52% of all websites; just 4.6% are in French. Across the E.U. (and excluding the U.K.), 92% of students choose to study English as a foreign language, compared to 33% for French and 13% for German. Even French multinationals like Alstom and Vivendi have adopted English as the workplace vernacular. "This isn't about fighting English, but rather the use and influence of any language at the cost of all others," says conservative legislator Bruno Bourg-Broc, leader of a French parliamentary group monitoring the language...
...Bethlehem Steel went belly up. Many of Europe's former communist bloc governments determinedly sold off their dilapidated, money-losing steel mills. Workers around the globe were bounced out of the devilishly cyclical industry in droves. Even bosses were shying away: in 1998, Michael Frenzel, then chairman of German industrial concern Preussag, became so fed up with the smokestack rollercoaster that he embarked on a program to transform Preussag - now TUI - into a travel firm, selling off the company's steel mills...
...about gays and women, and the fact that he had been nominated by Berlusconi, amounted to a cause that Greens, Socialists and a majority of Liberals were willing to go to the mat for. "This week was the birth of a truly European Socialist faction," said Martin Schulz, the German leader of the Socialist group. (Berlusconi may now regret having compared Schulz to a Nazi pow camp guard last year.) "Despite pressure from national governments," he added, "all our Socialists were thinking like Europeans...
...offered the world premiere rights of the opera, says Fay. “We then traveled to Germany where we got to see and touch the original score. We also went to Russia where we auditioned Russian opera singers, since the story is Russian, though the composer was German...
...Busch-Reisinger Museum presents an exhibition of sculpture by artists who were ambivalent toward the media. “Dependable Objects” presents the works of German artists beginning in the 1960’s including works by Franz Erhard Walther, Hans Haacke, Charlotte Posenenske and Gerhard Richter. Through Jan. 2. The Busch-Reisinger Museum inside The Fogg...