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...initiative requires Germany's intelligence agencies in each state to compile a dossier on Scientology activities that might violate the German constitution. Their report will probably be presented at the next meeting of interior ministers in the spring and then delivered to federal Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, who will have to decide whether or not to initiate a federal-level investigation. The Hamburg officials are hoping that in 2008 or 2009 a process will be initiated that will result in a federal ban on the organization, potentially freezing its assets and outlawing fundraising and recruitment - restrictions similar to those that...
Nonetheless, Nestle thinks it is undervalued--and is trying to broadcast that message. Soon after he was appointed chief financial officer last year, Wolfgang Reichenberger solicited analysts and investors for suggestions on what Nestle could do better, and the company has started publishing more detailed financial information, including sales-growth figures for some individual product categories...
...less). In the last two decades chefs have helped make Americans savvier than ever about food. Ordinary grocery stores are now selling their own brands of organic peanut butter and pasta sauce. Then, consider today's range of food media - from blogs to magazines to television networks promoting Wolfgang Puck wannabes. "You see the food we're making trickling down to the masses. The quality of the food in grocery stores is extraordinary - that's the impact we have," says Thomas Keller...
...Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff repeatedly raised the case with Germany's Interior Minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, who reassured his counterpart that German authorities were taking the case seriously. The two, German officials say, have a close personal chemistry. Chertoff and his wife visited the Schaeubles at their country home and in the German capital, Berlin. "There is a level of understanding and trust on the important issues," one said...
...mass burial site was reopened, but by then the body had decomposed beyond recognition. Determining which among 23 recovered skulls was Schiller's became an act of divination: the mayor of Weimar simply deemed the biggest one to be that of the cerebral poet. Schiller's friend Johann Wolfgang von Goethe later took the memento mori home to muse upon; he even wrote a reverential poem entitled Lines on Seeing Schiller's Skull. Since 1827, this cranium has had a place of honor in Weimar's ducal vault, later joined by Goethe's remains in what has become a shrine...