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...makeup man and missed, dousing Katharine Hepburn); she was funny but in a slapstick way audiences were not used to from women. Nearing 40, she was deep into a well-paid but unspectacular B-movie career when the opportunity came along to star in a TV show. Then, as Stefan Kanfer's entertaining but unreflective biography Ball of Fire (Knopf; 361 pages) details, she did what many unusual talents must. She created her own niche...
...prospects because of the education-budget cuts. "Germany is worse off today than a year ago and Berlin is the worst place to be," she says. "I have lots of friends who are unemployed. They make do for a while, but most move away eventually." Stefan Linse, 34, used to be a salesman in a boutique on the city's upmarket shopping street, the Kurfürstendamm: "I lost my job because people think twice before spending their money on extras like expensive clothes or dinner at a restaurant." Even Berlin's famous nightlife has been affected by the glum...
...called Berlin Initiative infuriates as many as it pleases. Pro-whaling nations, led by Japan, Iceland and Norway, decry the IWC's gradual transformation from a small forum of whaling nations founded in 1946 to a 51-member, broad-based organization. "The IWC was set up for whaling," says Stefan Asmundsson, head of the commission's Icelandic delegation. "It's very clear that conservation is part of it, but conservation is there to ensure the continuation of whaling. It's a means to an end." Like so many environmental battlegrounds, the fight over whales is an endless tangle of emotive...
Conservation is there to ensure the continuation of whaling. It's a means to an end - STEFAN ASMUNDSSON, Head of Iceland's IWC delegation
...Brother Africa contestants cannot even agree on who should sing first. After an initial blowup, Bayo, an argumentative economist from Nigeria, says he has been insulted by Kenyan psychology student Alex and slinks off to mope, complaining that "nobody listens to me." "Don't behave in this way," advises Stefan, a forensic psychologist from Namibia, "because the entire house will suffer." The contestants on the African reality-television program may be divided, but their antics have united viewers across the continent - and in the process created an unlikely cultural force. Since the launch of the program three weeks ago, millions...