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ERIK KIRSCHBAUM

ERIK KIRSCHBAUM


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Huge potential as Berlin property goes nowhere

Frank Roszak, a good-humoured Berlin butcher with a friendly smile, bought a spacious 10-room house in a pleasant suburb just west of the German capital city for $1.3 million about 16 years ago.Two years ago he put the two-storey house…

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Bana says no ego clash in film with Scarlett, Portman

BERLIN – Eric Bana insisted his co-stars Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman got on famously and that all three actors were able to raise their game in ‘The Other Boleyn Girl’ with a friendly competition to outdo each other.The Australian…

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Germany, Poland open the border

AHLBECK, Germany – When grinning German soldiers broke open a border gate to Poland at the start of World War Two, Nazi propaganda cameras captured one of the most infamous images of the invasion.Nearly 70 years later, the mayors of…

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Geldof remakes daily into plea for Africa

BERLIN – Germany’s best-selling newspaper Bild took its daily diet of sex, crime and topless women off of page one on Friday and replaced it with a full-page image of a starving African child writhing in agony.The impact of stand-in…

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German Greens turn grey as party leaders hold on

COLOGNE – Germany’s Greens are turning grey and a widening generation gap looms over the party heavily reliant on young voters just as they are counting on a revival of political fortunes amid growing climate change fears.But the ageing founder…

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German media dismiss Schroeder’s criticism

BERLIN – Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, breathing fire after staging the most remarkable election comeback in German history, has wasted no time unleashing his wrath on the country’s media.Just moments after Schroeder succeeded in turning what in June had looked like…

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Debate rages over Hitler film

BERLIN – A powerful new film about Adolf Hitler opened in German cinemas last week amid a raging debate about whether the dictator can be portrayed as anything less than the world’s greatest evil.’The Downfall’ drew mixed reviews from German…

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Schroeder pulls off another bold move

BERLIN – Is it the beginning of the end for Gerhard Schroeder or another shrewd move to save his job?That’s what Germans are wondering after Schroeder turned over the reins of his centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) to loyal ally Franz…

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