German Chat: MOSTLY ENGLISH INTERNET BREEDS RESENTMENT
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. In the ensuing decades, it also became the unofficial language of world commerce.Now, as the Japanese cybersurf, China adds its own Internet backbone and commercial online...
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: The Sunday Telegraph (United Kingdom): Comic powers: PROFILE: MICHAEL MYERS The third film about an English swinger has made a gawky Canadian the toast of Hollywood
It was on an ordinary afternoon in small-town Canada, as Mike Myers was driving home from ice hockey practice, that Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery was born. Over the radio wafted Burt Bacharach's The Look of Love and, within seconds, Myers's comedy mojo was working. "It's the national anthem of libido, and I just thought: `Where have all the swingers gone?' "Enter Austin, epitome of a fabulously groovy...
German Chat: The Independent: MEN'S STYLE: A bigger flash Now that excessive jewellery on men has become a cult, writes Oliver Bennett, there's nothing girly about a bit of sparkle
The difference between a dandy and a fop is the difference between the feather and the flying mallet. And David Beckham, once again, has proved himself a fop. The striker wore an extraordinary amount of jewellery the other day on a German chat show. He looked like an explosion in H Samuel's, fists glistering with gold and diamonds, and his sartorial manner screeched "Conspicuous Consumer and Proud of It".Of course, Becks has never shrunk from...
German Chat: Daily Mail: How Beckham Dazzled The Germans Without Aball Being Kicked: Celebrity Watch: David, Victoria
WHEN David Beckham finds himself with time on his hands, his thoughts tend to turn to the time on his hands.Meaning yet another fabulously-expensive watch to add to his glittering collection. The latest to adorn his wrist is spectacular even by the standards of the England soccer captain and his pop star wife Victoria.Costing Pounds 50,000 and made by designer Franck Muller, the Swiss creation has an outsized rectangular face and comes in white gold, encrusted with diamonds.It...