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...In contrast, the non-Jewish Erich Kästner — author of Emil and the Detectives — watched his own books burn on May 10 1933 but went on writing at that favourite literary haunt, Berlin’s Romanisches Café....
...Endurance: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Emil Zátopek, by Rick Broadbent, Wisden, RRP£16.99/$27 Emil Zátopek, the star of the 1952 Olympics, was a chatty, humorous and kind Czech army officer who...
...Lee Byung-chull As his battle with cancer neared its end, Lee Byung-chull became concerned about the biblical warnings of rich men struggling to enter heaven, writes Simon Mundy....
...Additional reporting by Simon Rabinovitch in Beijing and Roger Blitz in London...
...Sir, In Life & Arts (June 9), the normally careful Simon Kuper deprives readers of the key element of the Ron Clarke/Emil Zatopek story. Like Zatopek, Clarke was a one-speed runner....
...Romania’s prime minister Emil Boc resigned on Monday, becoming the latest European Union political leader to fall victim to economic crisis – and the first in eastern Europe....
...Introduction by Simon Kuper Ingeborg Sjöqvist is 100 years old, but now and then she still thinks back to her bad dive 80 years ago at the Los Angeles Olympics....
...Sale: Emil Nolde: Farbe Ist Kraft. Kraft Ist Leben Location: Galerie Ludorff, Königsallee 22, 40212 Düsseldorf, tel: +49 211 326 566 Date: Until April 17....
...Last year, the house set a new record price of £36,500 for a Russian example, eclipsing the £23,900 achieved for an Emil Cardinaux image of St Moritz in 2004....
...While saying goodbye at Prague airport in 1966, the great Czechoslovak runner, Emil Zátopek, slipped a packet to the Australian Ron Clarke....
...The glamorous Berliner Philharmoniker under Simon Rattle represents the old guard, with surprising counter-impulses provided by the Simón Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela led by the zippy Wunderkind...
...FT background briefing: Simon London: A global power made in China Simon London: Your rules and my processes Simon London: Quick-fire lessons in globalisation...
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