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Austria aims to open up on bank secrecy within weeks
Reuters* Chancellor Faymann sees chance for deal by EU summit in May * Austria ready to drop bank secrecy on foreigners' accounts * Unified EU position will allow talks with Switzerland, U.S. * European Commission gives cautious welcome to new stance By...Tags: Austria, International Organizations, Werner Faymann, Luxembourg, Marketing
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Austria paves way for EU bank secrecy talks
ReutersVIENNA (Reuters) - Austria dropped its blockade of European Union efforts to negotiate accords cracking down on cross-border tax cheats, unveiling on Friday proposals that would allow scrutiny of foreigners' accounts while keeping bank secrecy for...Tags: Austria, Werner Faymann, International Organizations, Luxembourg, European Union
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Austria struggles for unity before EU tax talks
ReutersVIENNA (Reuters) - Domestic politics are bedevilling Austria's efforts to forge a unified stance on easing banking secrecy just days before initial talks with European Union partners on how to crack down on cross-border tax cheats. Austria is the only...Tags: Austria, International Organizations, Werner Faymann, Luxembourg, European Union
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Thoughts from Dr. Joe: When classrooms aren't classrooms
I’m still at loss for words trying to express the essence of the La Caņada High School choral artists’ Cantemus tour through Central Europe. If you remember, when I last wrote, the choir had just finished singing in Bratislava, Slovakia....Tags: Austria, Artists, Entertainment, Music, Prague (Czech Republic)
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Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Vienna for gay travelers
VIENNA, March 29 -- Vienna's opulent Habsburg-era coffee houses, architecture, palaces, operas, and other cultural institutions give the city an air of imperial grandeur. Yet the Austrian capital with 1.7 million residents is not stuck in the past,...
Tags: Restaurants, Gays and Lesbians, Culture, Dining and Drinking, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Patrons get naked for Vienna exhibition on nudity
What the above photograph doesn't show is that shoes were allowed during a recent naked art tour held at Vienna's Leopold Museum. The highly unconventional gallery excursion -- in which guests were invited to strip down and walk about -- was tied to the...
Tags: Artists, Arts, Arts and Culture, Museums
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Gerda Lerner dies at 92; pioneered field of women's history
Gerda Lerner spent her 18th birthday in a Nazi prison in Vienna and feared that birthday would be her last. Her jailers meant to starve her, but her cellmates — two gentile women imprisoned for their anti-fascist views — shared their rations...
Tags: 12 Angry Men (movie), Chicago Tribune, Lobbying, Religion and Belief, Feminism
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Nudists welcome to tour 'Nude Men' art exhibition in Vienna
An art exhibition in Vienna dedicated to the male nude is reportedly welcoming nudists to experience the galleries au naturel after public hours. A spokesman for the Leopold Museum in Vienna told Reuters that there was a request by an association...
Tags: Artists, Andy Warhol, Travel, Tourism and Leisure, Arts
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Wine pairings for three Vietnamese dishes
Green papaya salad Look for a white blend from Vienna or Austria that's sweet with a crisp minerality, such as a Gemischter Satz. Phan especially likes it with the 2011 Bernreiter Gemischter Satz, a field blend grown within the city limits of Vienna,...Tags: Austria, Wines, Lemons, Alcoholic Beverages
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The Rev. Eric W. Gritsch, 81, noted Lutheran theologian, author
The Rev. Eric W. Gritsch, a prominent Lutheran theologian, educator and author whose teaching career at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, Pa., spanned more than three decades, died Dec. 29 at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center of...Tags: Austria, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center , Yale University, Religion and Belief, Seminaries
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Vienna Philharmonic attacked for past Nazi ties, being too white
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra has garnered a loyal television audience around the world with its annual New Year's concert broadcasts, which air in the U.S. on PBS. But this New Year's celebration was somewhat marred by attacks made on the orchestra...
Tags: PBS (tv network), Minority Groups, Julie Andrews, World War II (1939-1945), Entertainment
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Critic's Notebook: Gustavo Dudamel wraps up an ambitious year
NEW YORK — The hair jokes may have grown old, what with a slight fleck of gray peeking through his now shortened and tamed curls. The Dude nickname is pretty much over as well. And no longer is Gustavo Dudamel as tempted to head for Pink's hot dog...
Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Caracas (Venezuela), Carnegie Hall, Pink (singer), Festive Events
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