German Chat: Daily Mail: Soccer: The Crown Jewels Of Beckingham Palace
IT WAS nothing less than we'd come to expect from them. David and Victoria Beckham put on a dazzling display of jewellery on a German chat show at the weekend. The diamond-studded watch sparkling on David's wrist cost Pounds 50,000 alone. But these are just the latest additions to a jewellery collection that is rapidly beginning to resemble the Crown Jewels.Where once their high-profile shopping trips were targeted at Gucci and Louis Vuitton, the Beckhams have now...
German Chat: Life In Cyberspace / English in Cyberspace? Mais Non!
THE GLOBALIZATION of the Internet, common wisdom says, will make our world smaller. And the growth of the 'Net worldwide, experts add, will only speed the spread of English as the common language of the globe.In the aftermath of World War II, English surpassed French as the official language of western diplomacy. And in the ensuing decades, it also became the unofficial language of world commerce. Now, as the Japanese cybersurf, as China adds its own system of Internet...
German Chat: Lost in chatland with the other insomniacs
The infomercials had lost their sheen and it was far too late to call my mom. At the pub down the street, they were ringing the bell for last call. There was no one to harass- the roomies were all sound asleep. When you slip into that jittery late-night state where you're too tired to work and still too caffeinated to sleep, the Internet takes on a whole new meaning. It becomes a cerebral magnet with the disquieting lure of a drug; a temple of angst-y insomnia that can't...
German Chat: Germans warm to tales of 'baby brother' Kohl
AS a gesture of support for the increasingly beleaguered German chancellor, Hildegard Getrey decided to give Helmut Kohl a surprise last week. Ein kleine s Geschenk she called it - a little present. Her gift was to reveal to the world that she is the Iron Chancellor's sister.Not many Germans even knew Kohl had a sister. In fact, they know next to nothing about the obsessively secretive chancellor's private life. By talking at length about her "baby...
German Chat: POPE NAMED AS MAN OF THE YEAR
Pope John Paul II is Time magazine's 1994 Man of the Year. ``In a year when so many people lamented the decline in moral values or made excuses for bad behavior, Pope John Paul II forcefully set forth his vision of the good life and urged the world to follow it,'' Time says. As evidence of the pontiff's influence, Time notes his international bestseller, Crossing the Threshold of Hope; his extensive travels; and his success at the...
