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...Democratic Party (SPD) is bracing for a major setback when state elections are held next month in Brandenburg, Saxony and Saarland. The SPD is faring so badly in Brandenburg, where it currently rules in a coalition government, that the Party of Democratic Socialism - the successor to the former East German communists - has overtaken it in opinion polls...
...When a German appeals court last March overturned the only conviction against a suspected Sept. 11 conspirator, the court blamed the U.S. for failing to allow testimony from terrorists in its custody. Now Mounir el-Motassadeq - a Moroccan engineering student in Hamburg charged with being an accessory to murder in the 9/11 attacks and supporting a terrorist organization - is on trial again. And last week, the U.S. unexpectedly turned over intelligence reports based on questioning of two top al-Qaeda operatives. It was a victory for the Germans - except that the testimony seems to exonerate el-Motassadeq. Ramzi Binalshibh...
...spell mayonnaise in German? Traditionalists will tell you Mayonnaise, but on Aug. 1, 2005, the authorized spelling is set to become Majonäse. On the same day, Frischgebacken (freshly baked) will turn into frisch gebacken, as countless delightful German compound words are broken up by official decree. Other new rules will govern where a comma belongs in a sentence, and use of the good old-fashioned ?, which will only follow long vowels and diphthongs, while ss will follow short vowels; so it's ich wei? (I know) but ich wusste (I knew). Alles klar? Not really. When Time...
...Nordic heroes make me realize that they too, at one point, thought the hysteria had gone too far. And when I enter the empty Wagner living room, loudspeakers blare the ride of the Valkyries, from the only Wagner opera I have experienced live. But in the pension, sappy German love songs make me feel that Wagner is ever distant; I did not find him in Bayreuth. I chat with the pension owner about local cuisine and head...
...nerve center of this musical empire is Davis' home, on a 100-acre ranch outside Omaha, just 20 miles from the Strategic Air Command and its huge stockpile of nuclear weapons. He lives with his wife, his three children and several German shepherds and raises chickens, holds barbecues and peers through the telescope of his own astronomical observatory. In his basement is a well-equipped recording studio, in which he composes and mixes. Microphones are planted in the surrounding woodlands to record the natural sounds he incorporates into sound tracks. A private jet sits on a tarmac 15 minutes away...