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...Merkel's handling of the Opel crisis could end up hurting her if it fuels support for leftist parties. This weekend should provide a hint at what could come in September, with elections in the states of Saarland, Thuringia and Saxony. "GM's management is leading the government around by the nose and abandoning the Opel workers," said Bodo Ramelow, a leading official of Die Linken, successor to the former East German Communist Party, who is running for governor in Thuringia. "It's time for the Chancellor to show what her supposedly good ties to President Obama are worth...
...studying paintings called Hakubyo – literally “white lines,” for the negative space around the ink of the illustrations – McCormick said she is "trying to show that that is not the case and that women had continued to compose narratives and poetry...
...present during its visits to other people. Biden recalled Kennedy's ministry after his first wife and daughter died in a car wreck and his sons were critically injured. "He was on the phone with me literally every day in the hospital," Biden said. "I'd turn around and there would be some specialist from Massachusetts, a doc I never even asked for, literally sitting in the room with me." Kennedy spent a lot of time at Walter Reed hospital, with wounded soldiers. He gave a dying Senate reporter a watercolor he'd painted for her nursing home wall...
...help but think of Willy Wonka when you meet Tsang Heh-kwan. While walking around her factory in Hong Kong's New Territories, the 80-year-old giggles as she offers samples of a candy product she's developing. The subtly sweet ginger confectionery is a delight, and Tsang - hale and lively - declares that she has finally perfected the formula that prevents it from sticking to teeth...
...north of the Rio Grande see Mexico's change as an encouraging sign for their own struggle. Allen St. Pierre, head of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, says the Mexican law is part of changing global attitudes to the issue. "Cultural social norms are shifting around the world and in the United States. There will likely come a point when the majority see that prohibition is expensive and simply doesn't work," he says. St. Pierre points out that 13 U.S. states have already decriminalized marijuana and California has legalized it for limited medical...