In 2003, he told Germany's Stern magazine that he thought his native country, the United States, was also 'dumb'.

在2003年，他告诉德国《明星周刊》(Stern)，他觉得他的祖国美利坚合众国也“蠢”(dumb)。

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Stern was founded in 1948 and is now Germany's largest news magazine with a circulation of 7.5 million.

《明星》周刊是德国目前最大的时事社会生活杂志，最高发行量达750万份。

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The New York Times, Washington Post, Le Figaro, Germany's Stern Magazine and the Sydney Morning Herald are among the international titles which have carried articles about the city.

BBC: City venues in huge culture boost

We have heard the apparent British threat to block other EU business unless its agenda is met described as "blackmail" by the head of the Bundestag Europe committee, Gunther Krichbaum, and by Cornelia Fuchs, former London correspondent for Stern magazine, as something that will soon exhaust the patience of ordinary Germans as well as their government.

BBC: Germans united in regret over Britain's EU stance

The 12-page article in current affairs magazine Stern, which sells around one million copies a week, paints a damning portrait of modern Britain under the title of The English Patient.

BBC: Row over 'crisis-hit' Britain article