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...German authorities. The square is ringed by fine restaurants, such as Lutter & Wegner and Restaurant Borchardt, where government ministers dine with their aides. Further down Friedrichstrasse is Checkpoint Charlie, the main cold war crossing point from east to west. A guard house marks the entrance to the old American sector in Berlin...
...just partisan zeal that sold tickets. Vice President Dick Cheney and his energy task force had been rewriting the industry's rules--and his proposals were unveiled just five days before the dinner. Three G.O.P. fund raisers told TIME that the R.N.C. consciously targeted the energy sector. "Whoever has the hot issue is going to be the most responsive," one money man says. "Energy was the talk of the town." R.N.C. deputy chairman Jack Oliver denies targeting any group, and Cheney's spokesman denies any link between access and contributions...
Back from way back: union membership in the private sector has dipped from 35% in the mid-'50s to 9% today. The U.A.W. is also losing some of its traditional members. Last fall Nissan autoworkers in Tennessee voted down union representation nearly 2 to 1. "It's a bit ironic that the mighty U.A.W. failed to gain votes from autoworkers," says David Denholm, president of the Public Service Research Foundation, an antiunion group, "and now it's making a big deal about representing a couple hundred dorm monitors...
This month at CeBIT, an information-technology fair in Hanover, Germany, that draws some 700,000 visitors, Logitech will introduce its entry in the mobile sector, a global market more than twice the size of the one for PCs. There are a billion mobile telephones in use, plus 50 million PDAs, compared with half a billion personal computers...
...guru Tom Macy as a senior adviser, the highest position a Chinese bank has offered to a foreigner. The publicly traded bank also wants its stock listed overseas. Launched in 1996, the country's only private lender grew its assets 90% last year by targeting China's burgeoning private sector...