"Crackpot Idea with Grave Consequences"

Russia: Boris Yeltsin allegedly injured a man fatally in 1990 while drunk. The witness who claims this is a member of parliament and was for a time the second most powerful man in the country. The story is told in a restaurant near the Moscow Art Theatre by Alexander Korshakov, who was with Yeltsin at the time as his private bodyguard.

"Opened My Eyes"

SPIEGEL in-depth interview with TUI board chairman Michael Frenzel, 57, about the consequences of the tsunami for Europe's largest tour operator, the tourist industry's responsibility towards customers and holiday destinations alike, and the powers of repression of German holidaymakers:

"The times when you could just hush up crises are over. The industry knows this. Today openness is also essential in the interest of one's own credibility. ... Apart from crisis management, the second major issue is prevention. So far that has been working quite well when it comes to the threat of terrorism or epidemics. ... You cannot wrap a protective coat of armour round the Earth, or build walls around the beaches all over the world. ... First of all we will help to rebuild the infrastructure. Then we decided this week to contribute 1.25 million euros towards helping rebuild a village on the southern coast of Sri Lanka that was hit particularly hard. We will also be asking our customers to make donations to very concrete projects of this kind. And finally we will urge our industry to consolidate its efforts and increase the political pressure so that an early warning system for tsunamis can be installed."

"The Anti-Hero"

Careers: With United Internet, Ralph Dommermuth established the most successful German Web company. Now the survivor of the New Economy wants to conquer America and Asia. Analysts believe he is quite capable of becoming a world-wide market leader in so-called web hosting - providing storage facilities and content for private and commercial Internet sites.

"I Feel Uncomfortable"

SPIEGEL interview with Wolfgang Schomburg, 56, German judge at the Hague War Crimes Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, about the mistakes of the prosecutors, agreements reached with witnesses, and unjust verdicts:

"What is particularly critical is the mostly vague indictments. They often comprise 'a stockpile' of a whole range of possible actions and their implementation. One can't help getting the impression that an arrest warrant is issued first, and only afterwards do the actual investigations begin. Another handicap is the incomplete information that we judges receive from the prosecution. ... If the public prosecutor and a defendant reach an 'agreement' before the trial, then we are only presented with a trimmed indictment. So the judges cannot tell whether the reduction in the sentence is justified or not ... It is certainly astonishing to see that the most wanted persons, including the Croatian General Ante Gotovina, have not so far been arrested. No one is going to convince me that this would not have been possible, given the corresponding political will."

US military strategy: Three months after being re-elected, and on the eve of the triumphal celebrations marking the start of his second term in office, US President George W. Bush will be unable to avoid a reappraisal of the deployment of his troops in Iraq much longer. He faces massive misgivings among his own military commanders, who are pointing out more and more openly that the means at their disposal in the war against the insurgents are inadequate. Criticism of the head of the Pentagon Donald Rumsfeld is increasing, even fellow party members are privately demanding that he be replaced in view of the gruelling everyday life in Iraq with its tensions and heavy losses, and warning of the need to reconsider the strategy. But for the moment President George Bush and - more importantly - his mighty Vice President Richard Cheney are standing firmly behind the Secretary of Defence. So far the war in Iraq has cost at least 200 billion dollars; month after month, the Pentagon has to find another 4.5 billion for the campaign in Mesopotamia. An end is not in sight.

"He Possessed the Laser of Wrath"

SPIEGEL in-depth interview with Christiane Kubrick about her husband Stanley and his reputation as an eccentric misanthropist:

"His great longing was for order - just as many people would love to have wings. He was very careful and clear in his financial and artistic affairs. But when it was a question of where the blazes his other shoe had got to: it simply wasn't there. ... He was passionate about getting the very best he could out of the material. His motto was: 'If you don't love the material, stay away from it. There are already too many mediocre films.' The state of boredom was something he didn't know. That's why he immediately became angry when he noticed that someone was not one hundred percent on the job, looking out of the window, for instance. 'Either you care, or you don't,' he used to say then. ...The idiocy and cruelty with which the fictitious existence of weapons of mass destruction was used in order to invade Iraq would have made him hit the ceiling, and confirmed one of his favourite sayings about cinema: You can only understate things in a movie, exaggeration is impossible. He once defined the stubbornness of American Puritanism as follows: it's the 'nagging fear that somebody somewhere might be happy.' ... I only take action against those mendacious stories that make my husband look like a complete monster. Apart from that let me tell you: He, the great mystery man, was unable to keep a single secret. Not for one second. He blabbed everything - and in the end he would beg: 'But please don't tell anyone else.'"

"The Fool Speaks the Truth"

Philosophers: Martin Heidegger is well known the world over; not so his oddball brother Fritz. A new study by the Berlin literary specialist Hans Dieter Zimmermann, 64, reveals the courageous brother as having been a remarkable man. Zimmermann has investigated the home life and family ties of the Heideggers in great detail. The resulting twin portrait, tinged with a lot of local colour, demonstrates that Fritz, who was nicknamed "Scheinwerfer" on account of his money-counting skills, could equally well have become an intellectual, had the financial means of the sexton family not been limited and had his severe stammer not got in the way. Whereas Martin Heidegger joined the new ruling powers in 1933, even hailing the decision of "our people" in favour of Hitler as the "fundamental demand of all being to preserve and save its own essence"; just three months later Fritz gave a carnival speech warning that the hot summer had "turned everything brown". "Beware of these people who try to do things one hundred percent!", he called out.