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...German cemetery at Bitburg, where 47 of the Third Reich's notorious Waffen SS troops, as well as some 2,000 regular German soldiers, lie buried. As criticism mounted, Reagan had belatedly added a concentration camp to his itinerary next month in West Germany, where he will help Chancellor Helmut Kohl observe the 40th anniversary of the ending of the war in Europe (see following stones). Only the day before, Reagan had stirred passions anew by seeming to equate most of Bitburg's interred soldiers with the Jewish victims of the Nazi terrors...
...pondering how China might begin to escape from its elaborate web of political fictions, one thinks of the gestures of contrition that German leaders have made toward other Europeans. Willy Brandt penitently fell to his knees in the former Warsaw Ghetto; Helmut Kohl reached for the hand of French President Fran?ois Mitterrand in the bloodstained fields of Verdun. Such symbolism is the stuff from which true forgiveness is born and historical credibility restored. The death of Zhao presented one more opportunity for China's leadership to begin the long, slow process of doing something similar. Alas, this challenge...
...business of fashion isn't always a pretty thing. Designers are increasingly bending to the whims of corporate backers, as big names like Helmut Lang have lost control of their houses, while designers like Alexander McQueen and Stella McCartney have been given ultimatums to boost profitability. Valvo, in contrast, owns his own $80 million company--an industry rarity--and has no intention of ceding control...
...last week, Helmut Lang, the Austrian-born ready-to-wear designer and reigning minimalist of the '90s, resigned from his own company, which is owned by the Prada Group. The move ended a feud with Prada CEO Patrizio Bertelli over how to reverse losses at Lang's line. In the mid-'90s, Lang's sales were as high as $100 million. When he sold a 51% stake in his namesake brand in 1999, Lang touted Bertelli as a guy who "understands the culture of a high-end product," and said, "His line is very, very well managed." Bertelli, who later...
...British fashion photographer Simon Atlee, 33, who was on vacation in Phuket with his girlfriend, Czech model Petra Nemcova, 25. Nemcova suffered a broken pelvis, but survived by clinging to a palm tree and floating in the water amid bodies and debris for eight hours. Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl watched the tsunami from the third-floor balcony of his hotel room in Thalpe, Sri Lanka. "I recalled images from the war, which I experienced as a boy," Kohl wrote in the tabloid Bild. "It appeared as if after a heavy bombing raid." Amid so much death and heartbreak, there...