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...examines the relationships in her own life. She has had to rethink her definition of 'enemy', not least because her father was English and her mother German and they met in the aftermath of World War II in Germany. She has also been forced to rethink her definition of 'friend'. If we learn something from someone that helps us to grow and develop as human beings, becoming m...

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...be free from our present, crazy, violent insanity? 12 The Mother A child of East Prussian woods and forests, a German outpost dwarfed by the Russian... ...olent insanity? 12 The Mother A child of East Prussian woods and forests, a German outpost dwarfed by the Russian giant nearby. Skiing to school in ... ...oys, her brother, too, have gone to fight and die in honor, they say, on the Eastern front. But war or no war, nothing deflects from her goal of stu... ...uture of uncertainty and fear. The brother lying wounded in a hospital south-east of Prague, so farewell to family when they reach Berlin. The long t... ...ffed with bullets and shells but with Russian prisoners' coats, destined for German soldiers at the front, then by train to Prague... But a city in tu... ...enzied revolt they meet - Czechs rebelling against wartime oppressors - so German barracks they seek, a refuge from fires and shooting, till a cease... ...philosophy and war, to ask all he encounters, whether workmen in the road or politicians in the street, about their work and trade and the knowledge ...

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...worth little. Return The Value of Stocks of a Company The debate rages all over Eastern and Central Europe, in countries in transition as well a... ...t sales, in other words, increase the volatility of shorted stocks. Studies of the German DAX, conducted in 1996-8 by Alexander Kempf, Chairman of ... ...my of an entire major city, Bitola. After much wrangling and recriminations - many politicians seem to have benefited from the scam - the governmen... ...y but the politically well-connected, to cronies, and family members of influential politicians - they often end up fostering a bubble. South Korean... ...the very fact that S&L's were poised to exploit these opportunities is a tribute to politicians and regulators alike - though except for setting the... ...ough planning laws ... Similar arguments were heard in Japan in the late 1980s and Germany in the early 1990s - and yet in recent years house price... ...ncy Straf - Corruption in CEE The Criminality of Transition The Kleptocracies of the East The Enrons of the East Bully at Work - Interview with Tim Fi... ...s Missing Billions Treasure Island Revisited - Maritime Piracy Organ Trafficking in Eastern Europe Begging Your Trust in Africa Slush Funds Return ... ...oblematic with global companies. We have already seen resistance by Daimler-Benz of Germany. Act Section 305: Officer And Director Bars And Penalti...

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...duals too lazy to think for themselves. It is also sought after, or should be, by politicians vitally concerned with the opinions of their constitu... ...s paid for the purchase! Once they have successfully sold the "Vote for me" idea, politicians produce and market a host of other concepts, in aspir... ...t a "neglected cluster of professionals," Wharton (1977) raises the question: The politicians are the persons who must adopt, finance, advocate and ... ...e setting out on their sales territories. Two concepts from social psychology are germane to a discussion of communication sources. The first hold... ...depends on the type of malnutrition it is to relieve. Nutrition researchers at an eastern medical college have found that certain maladies of the el... ...nd outward to consumers and others seeking advice. (In the history of English and German law, the advocate was a special kind of lawyer who advised ... ...nsactions. " Proceedings of the Conference of the American Academy of Advertising. East Lansing, Mich.,107-11. -----. 1978. "Segmentation Research i... ...cial Resources in Family Planning Program: The International Experience. Honolulu: East-West Center, 113-18. Martin, N. A. 1968. "The Outlandish Ide...

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... Towards the end of the 19th century, the Armenians formed guerrilla movements in eastern Van (the Armenakans, in 1885) and in Russia. Radical nat... ...at war with Russia. When the first world war broke, Turkey allied itself with the Germans. All Armenian men aged 20-45 were conscripted to the arm... ...Barbie Barbie was invented by Ruth Handler in 1959. It was modelled on a minuscule German sex doll called "Lilli". Barbie was the nickname of Ruth'... ...ectrelations.html Berliner When President John F. Kennedy sought to impress the Germans in 1961 - then besieged by the Russians - he visited Ger... ... pre-epidemic levels. Scholars believe that the plague emanated from the Middle East through southern Russia, between the Black and the Caspian ... ...ing of successful - even brilliant - battles and coalitions with local warlords and politicians which culminated in the liberation of Peru. In 1824,... ... one. Sweden adopted the Gregorian Calendar in 1753, Japan in 1873, Egypt in 1875, Eastern Europe between 1912 to 1919 and Turkey in 1927. In Russi...

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.... As adults we are the objects – often the victims – of the decisions of corrupt politicians, mad scientists, megalomaniac media barons, gung-ho ... ...s preordained to accommodate sentient beings - namely, us humans. Industrialists, politicians and economists have only recently begun paying lip s... ...he very concept of observer is disputable – as modern physics, on the one hand and Eastern philosophy, on the other hand, have shown. Imagine tha... ... A couple of wholesome American youths (one of them a Jew) are nabbed by a ring of east Europeans who cater to the depraved needs of sadists by pro... ...nt and unfaithful Icelandic, seductive Czech and Russian women, a Dr. Mengele type German, a Ukrainian pimp. The torture chambers are located in a ... ... American Secretary of Defense's unforgettable coinage) - namely, the countries of eastern and central Europe - are obsequious vassals of the Unite... ...roceed to torture and amputate the sinister ringleader, a Central European- vaguely German, respectable-looking, middle-class type. He is too late s...

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...red in his perceptions as reality and not a part of his dreams. It was of a German American woman in a Volkswagen driving southwest through America's... ...re the most expensive fashions of the elite that gave her broad and muscular German frame elegance as she got ready to take her son to galleries, temp... ...t the Spanish word of "criatura." Her extended family had been a mixture of Germans and German-Argentineans, a passionate and passionless crowd who o... .... She remembered the few times that her father took her to a beach along the East Coast and the myriad times when he took her to the beaches in Turkey... ...n remained turned on. A newscaster was discussing the economic powers of the East with reference to the new economic experiments in the Soviet Union a... ...." "Kennedy Smith of the Kennedy dynasty--are you from the family of wealthy politicians?" "No, nothing special. Hardware store." "A hardware tycoon.... ...en this home for the last time." Chapter Twenty-Three Absent of Christ, this Easter morning began like many of those secular Easters of earlier years:...

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... Netherlands). Optimally, they should be lower (as is the case in Greece, Germany and Hungary). Alternatively, even if sickness benefits are earning... ... in Israel, Hungary, Italy and the Netherlands to 6 months and in France, Germany, Luxemburg and the United Kingdom – 12 months. Only in Belgium are... ...onal aid and subsidies to declining and infant industries. In Sweden and Germany there is co-determination. Workers have a quasi- constitutional sho... ...mbed to exceed the United States' at 5.6%. As was the case in Central and Eastern Europe, the glowing figures hid a disheartening reality of underem... ...nly employed in casual work. The average unemployment rate in Central and Eastern Europe is 14% - but it is double that (more than 30%) among the yo... ...ideas are debated in Britain. In France and most countries in Central and Eastern Europe, to dismiss a worker, the employer has to show that it has ... ...e class is often irreversibly hindered by an all-pervasive brain drain. Politicians in some countries decry this trend and deride those emigrating.... ...er and Internet industries in countries such as the USA. Desperate German politicians cried "Kinder, not Inder" (children, not Indians) when chancel... ... commentators, legal eagles, scholars, and opportunistically sympathetic politicians. Ask the denizens of Thailand, sub-Saharan Africa, Brazil, or ...

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...d, Ban Dong, is a small forest village in the mountains skirting the north-eastern parts of the province. In my previous study (1979) I applied non- p... ...eys, other provinces. Lampang plain is skirted by mountains to the north, east and south. The river valley opens out to the south-west, where the Wa... ... major western river. In Central Thailand, it joins large rivers from the east, and together they finally run into Chao Phraya, river of rivers, whic... ...houses of white-collar workers, too, the gate is always closed and a large German Shepherd dog patrols the yard behind the gate. The current ideal hou... ...iousness industry. Everywhere, modern consciousness technicians reporters, politicians, advertising people, artists and researchers incessantly try to... ...vited high-ranking guest might have made a speech, and prior to elections, politicians also came to funerals to speak. While waiting to depart, the fu... ...e, hygiene and good manners has above all been a 19 th century European (German, bourgois, middle-class) human ideal (the advent of which in the Nor... ...future, and in Lampang, too, public speech of local leaders, officials and politicians echoes with endless development liturgy. In the world of belief... ...e, hygiene and good manners has above all been a 19 th century European (German, bourgois, middle-class) human ideal (the advent of which in the Nor...

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...w Deal 1 2. Learning from the German New Deal of the 1990’s 3 3. Three forms of Eco... ... Learning From the German New Deal of the 1990's Few people realize that one Country trie... ...e realize that one Country tried a New deal only as recently as 18 years ago, Germany. The German modal could be the modal that some countries would... ...But few people realize the German New Deal failed. When the Berlin Wall fell, East Germany became part of West Germany to become a new Germany. The ... ...o become a new Germany. The West German Government spent billions rebuilding Eastern Germany, investing in public works and the financial bailout of... ...tern Germany, investing in public works and the financial bailout of ordinary East German incomes. The billions were paid by the taxpayer in the ... ...e here, but the developed and richest economies in in the World. And its the Politicians, Bankers and Economists who are backing these plans. So, w... ...overnmental loans, business stimulation packages, grants and tax breaks. Most Politicians know that high unemployment, and empty pockets leads to a ...

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...edonian Revolutionary Organization directs its eyes neither to the West, nor to the East,nor to anywhere else; it relies primarily on its own powers... ... primitive and uncultured Bulgarian relatives who inhabit a part of Bulgaria to the east. The Macedonians themselves were divided. Some wished to be... ..., the dream of a Greater Serbia is no less a recurrent nightmare than the numerable German Reichs and Serbia erupted upon the world stage no less fr... ...ia and Hungary) deprived Vojvodina of its autonomy. The Magyars rushed back in with German and Austrian settlers and immediately embarked upon a ma... ...ble goals, no doubt. Yet instability is contagious, a lesson not learn by Serb politicians. Even as the Bosnian uprising was in progress, King ... ...anning the murders of King Nicholas of Montenegro, King Constantine of Greece, the German Kaiser and King Ferdinand of Bulgaria. How much of it was... ... a state within a state (a feat later emulated by the IMRO). Those bureaucrats and politicians not already members of the shady outfit, obeyed its ... ...was never more oft- repeated than in the Balkans. The raging rivalry between an eastward-bound Austria and a defiant Serbia was bound to boil ov... ...tion of democratic forces included Croat as well as Serb intellectuals and wannabe politicians. Vladko Macek himself - later, the epitome of Croat ...

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...ism may mark the similarity between what I have written here, and the ancient Eastern teachings of Dualism, or Daoism. However: the ancient teachin... ...ominids 152 firestorm. Did our ancestors burn down the forests on the east side of the Rift Valley? Was that the reason they were chased ou... ...ed. Climates of the world became drier: trees began slowly disappearing. In Eastern Africa, this change of weather patterns was magnified by the R... ...grips with some previously non-experienced part of their cultural past. Take Germany and its flawed attempt to bury its recent past. Now German ch... ...en mostly whitewashed and deleted from their history books. Now: enlightened Germans are forced to re-experience a painful part of their cultural pa... ...nd will lead to chaos… and instability. Chaos is another code-word used by politicians and people in power. I myself have never seen this imagina... ... to jail? What is the worst punishment we mete out to the worst, most corrupt Politicians? We just don’t let them have all that Power again. Some ... ...size. So; three round rocks, equals three round eggs. Which is crazy. In a German Concentration camp: the difference between having three eggs as ... ...their crimes and are punished for being honest? One-in ten million corrupt politicians are honest enough to publicly admit their corruption; and h...

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...e threaten our well-being: unsettling ideologists, the mentally handicapped, many politicians. Why should we single out our physical well-being as... ...ntee normalcy. Think about anomic societies and periods of history such as Hitler's Germany or Stalin's Russia. Model citizens in these hellish envi... ...70). In his book "Die Psychopatischen Minderwertigkeiter", published in 1891, the German doctor J. L. A. Koch tried to improve on the situation by... ...ic Personality" (9th edition, 1950) and "Clinical Psychopathology" (1959), another German psychiatrist, K. Schneider sought to expand the diagnosis... ...tract from its awesome penetration and beauty). I have lived in Africa, the Middle East, North America, Western Europe and Eastern Europe. Dreams f... ...tain in their "waking" hours. This state of affairs is quite the same in the Middle East and Eastern Europe where dreams constitute an integral and ... ...le threaten our well-being: unsettling ideologists, the mentally handicapped, many politicians. Why should we single out our physical well-being as... ...onija", "Dnevnik", "Makedonija Denes", "Izvestia", "Argumenti i Fakti", "The Middle East Times", "The New Presence", "Central Europe Review", and ot...

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... 3 PERIYAR, THE PROPHET OF THE NEW AGE THE SOCRATES OF SOUTH EAST ASIA FATHER OF THE SOCIAL REFORM MOVEMENT AND ARCH ENEMY OF IGN... ...ailed by a UNESCO Award as ‘the prophet of the new age, the Socrates of south east Asia, father of the social reform movement and arch enemy of igno... ... an independent Dravidar Nadu, a nation for the Dravidians. He believed in German scholar Max Mueller's (now controversial) Arya Invasion Theory ... ...s notice and make them pass orders. If only the indifferent attitude of the politicians is going to be the answer, we will attain human rights by ... ... will understand what is more important by seeing the plans that the present politicians have made in order to prevent our social development. This... ...ion or caste is backward in this activity. In society, honest and good 260 politicians should come to power and these dishonest traitors must be ... ...uzzy Sets and Related Concepts, of International EUSFLAT Conference, Zittau, Germany, 10-12 September 2003. http://lanl.arxiv.org/ftp/math/papers/...

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...xamples are the massacre of the Tutsis in Rwanda, the Holocaust of the Jews in Nazi Germany's Third Reich, and the Armenian Genocide in Turkey. Rad... ... the setting of priorities to a political class or elite is thoroughly discredited. Politicians cannot be trusted, regardless of the system in which... ...resented in other, equally important, vocations (for instance, among company CEOs, politicians, diplomats, managers of higher education institution... ...as pliant and compliant butlers, replete with gloves and tarbushes. In the book, a German Jewish family prophetically lands at Jaffa, the only port... ...on. The Holocaust was a massive trauma not because of its dimensions - but because Germans, the epitome of Western civilization, have turned on the... ...ilization in the Levant and Arabia. It was the betrayal that mattered. Rejected by East (as colonial stooges) and West (as agents of racial contami... ...o assimilation in the age of European "Enlightenment". But it was soon hijacked by East European Jews who espoused a pernicious type of Stalinism a... ...pernicious type of Stalinism and virulent anti- Arab racism. The Jewish Response: East European Jews were no doubt more nationalistic and etatist ... ...ourse, is by far the most damaging. (5) Reallocation Fees Benefits paid (mainly to politicians and political decision makers) in order to affect th...

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... sector has been -0.6 percent in the year to the end of the second quarter of 2002. Germany faces the same predicament. As oil prices surge, their ... ... insurance companies merged into what is termed, in French, "bancassurance", or, in German, "Allfinanz" - so did their hedging and insurance operati... ...emnified by the state or insurance consortia it runs. Similar schemes are afoot in Germany. But terrorism and war are, gratefully, still rarities.... ...n Europe, 11 in Japan, 7.5 in Latin America and the Caribbean, 5 in China and South East Asia, less than 2 in East Europe and India each, about 1 in... ...o foster growth. In most countries of the world - definitely in Africa, the Middle East, the bulk of Latin America, central and eastern Europe, and... ...Middle East, the bulk of Latin America, central and eastern Europe, and central and east Asia - savings do not translate to investments, either in t... ...onstructive competition - among scientists, innovators, managers, actors, lawyers, politicians, and the members of just about every other professio... ...etail the newly acquired wealth and lavish lifestyles of formerly impoverished HZDS politicians. Some of them now reside in refurbished castles. Oth... ... Luckily, in countries like Macedonia, it is confined to its rapacious elites: its politicians, managers, university professors, medical doctors, j...

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...subsistence farmers in Africa, nomads in the Sinai desert, day labourers in East Europe, and intellectuals and socialites in Manhattan. Malignant na... ...res outlandish amounts of money (tens of millions of dollars per campaign). Politicians end up spending a lot of their time in office (and out of it... ...electoral colleges" composed exclusively of volunteers. NOTE - The Role of Politicians It is a common error to assume that the politician's role is... ...the corporation's major shareholders. To make sure that they get re-elected, politicians are sometimes required to implement reforms and policy meas... ...acial theories, from slave labour to the forcible annexation of territory. Germany was a colonial power no different to murderous Belgium or Britai... ...Both World Wars were colonial wars fought on European soil. Moreover, Nazi Germany innovated by applying prevailing racial theories (usually reserv... ...ews - a non-controversial proposition - but then expanded them to include "east European" whites, such as the Poles and the Russians. Germany was n... ...them to include "east European" whites, such as the Poles and the Russians. Germany was not alone in its malignant nationalism. The far right in Fra... ...w the same path (probably in Central Asia, but, possibly, in the Baltic and east Europe as well). Reinvigorated armies (and industrialists) often f...

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...cumstances of their tell- ing. How he loved travelers, especially from the East. I see Aesop on his balcony, the wind making him blink his eyes; he h... ...uous banquet in the château, again royalty. Three hundred guests, I hear: Germans, Dutch, Austrian, Swiss, two or three British, a Greek potentate; ... ... the pegs moving inside the beams: that is for integrity. Ivy grew on the east wall of my house in those days. Henley Street June 3, 1615 Alone... ...upidity: my stupid room, some of it visible in the same glass: the odious German etchings Judith gave me, Papa’s cracked leather chest, the un- polis... .... The White House June 20, 1863 Some of my happy days were passed in East Salem, when I was an Illinois postmaster. Since the mail arrived only... ...f some questions this evening: must civilization be influ- enced by greedy politicians, connivers, self-promoters, toadies? Is there such a thing as ... ...ith a nod or lifted hand. They are masters of military deception, just as politicians are masters of ambiguity. The colonels have their lingo; the m...

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...lf Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the West Lost the East. He served as a columnist for Central Europe Review, PopMatters, Bell... ...enior Business Correspondent, and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory and Suite101. Between 1999-20... ...rship XXI. The Second Gutenberg XXII. The E-book Evangelist XXIII. Germany’s Copyright Levy XXIV. The Future of Online Reference XXV. Ol... ...bones about their offerings. Many of them are located outside the USA (in Germany, or Asia) and at least one offers papers in a few languages, Hebre... ... unhealthy posture. "Internetophobia" is already discernible. People (and politicians) talk about how unsafe the Internet is and about its possible ... ...he sciences, readiness to work outlandish hours at a fraction of wages in Germany or the USA - all combined in one employee in these deprived countr... ... words, there are budding signs of a reversing brain drain - from West to East. E-publishing is at the forefront of software engineering, e-consume... ... unhealthy posture. "Internetophobia" is already discernible. People (and politicians) talk about how unsafe the Internet is and about its possible ... ... speech (authoritarian and dictatorial regimes, governments, conservative politicians) against pro- speechers. It will become a new arena of warfare ...

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...s the component parts of one nation. Such, I take it, is the belief of all politicians in Europe, and of many of those who live across the water. But ... ...t that treaties must necessarily be null and void through the falseness of politicians. 26 North America V ol. 1 “And what will England do for cotton... ...wo hundred and fifty miles from north to south, and the same distance from east to west; whereas the State called Rhode Island is about forty miles lo... ...itself at Bristol, and at other stated times at Kingston, and at others at East Greenwich. Of all legislative assem- blies it is the most peripatetic.... ...ake improvement by choosing for them- selves new ways. If so, the American politicians have not been the first in the world who have thought that any ... ...or of Portland, will be understood when it is borne in mind that the Great Eastern can enter it at all times, and that it can lay along the wharves at... ...f pioneers of agriculture— those frontier farmers, who are nearly one-half German and nearly the other half Irish, would desert their clearings and ru... ...nfusion—so much so that the Western towns appear to have been peopled with Germans. I found regiments of volunteers consisting wholly of Germans. And ... ...ed the fact that hired labor is chiefly done by fresh comers, by Irish and Germans, who have not as yet among them any combination sufficient to prote...

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...n powerful quarters: least of all could he have ex pected favour from the East India Company, to whose com mercial privileges he was unqualifiedly h... ...pring of 1819, about a year after the publication of the History, that the East India Di rectors desired to strengthen the part of their home estab ... ...life, were decided by my father’s obtaining for me an appointment from the East In dia Company, in the office of the Examiner of India Corre sponden... ...or excur sions, alone or with other friends. France, Belgium, and Rhenish Germany were within easy reach of the annual holi day: and two longer abse... ...neglect other modes of self cultivation. It was at this time that I learnt German; beginning it on the Hamiltonian method, for which purpose I and sev... ...as deriving much from Coleridge, and from the writings of Goethe and other German authors which I read during these years. I have so deep a respect fo... ...ish precedent for such a proceeding: and the profound ignorance of English politicians and the En glish public concerning all social phenomena not ge... ... sooner or later compel the attention both of theoretical and of practical politicians. The chief of these last, is the distinction between the functi...