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  • While an experienced cinematographer, Mr. Geissbühler is no rocket scientist, and appealed to his physicist brother to help build up his Brooklyn Space Program, as he calls it.

    Brooklyn Dad Who Launched DIY Spacecraft Profiled In NYTimes (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Mr. K ö hler said the presidency — a largely ceremonial post in Germany — had been damaged by the disrespectful criticism following his remarks.

    Germany Flags Afghan Drawdown Patrick McGroarty 2011

  • The report's authors include former IMF managing directors Michel Camdessus and Horst K ö hler as well as former U.S.

    Report Urges G-20 Overhaul Nathalie Boschat 2011

  • In June, President Horst K ö hler abruptly resigned after suggesting in a radio interview that Germany might go to war to defend its business interests — a risky assertion in a nation that avoids comparisons to its militaristic past at all costs.

    Germany Flags Afghan Drawdown Patrick McGroarty 2011

  • But while President K hler may go, the core of his message remains true: Germany is now a big-boy nation.

    Germany Needs to Grow Up Clayton M. McCleskey 2010

  • Mr. K hler is only the second German federal president to resign, following Heinrich L bke in 1969, who stepped down early amid failing health.

    German President Resigns Amid Flap Over Military 2010

  • In 1913, the German psychologist Wolfgang K hler, working at an "anthropoid research station" in the Canary Islands, reported that the animals showed a real talent for solving problems: Faced with a banana bunch dangling just out of reach, overhead, they would stack boxes and climb until they could grab the fruit.

    From Savage to Savvy: A New Understanding of Chimps 2010

  • Instead of addressing what K hler said, in the wake of his resignation the German press has jumped on the how-could-he-do-this bandwagon.

    Germany Needs to Grow Up Clayton M. McCleskey 2010

  • At the opening ceremony, Germany's president, Horst K hler, said he hoped that the exhibit would educate visitors about "people who sat behind their desks and ordered mass murder."

    Taking a Trip to the Center of Evil 2010

  • Opponents of Chancellor Angela Merkel portrayed the resignation as a defeat for the chancellor, since Mr. K hler was her hand-picked candidate in 2004 and was meant to symbolize the ascendancy of Ms. Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union.

    Merkel's Coalition Selects Candidate 2010

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