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...that if the cdu fails to hold the government of Baden-Württemberg, not only would its hopes of retaking the Bundesrat be dashed, but its preparations for next year's Germany-wide elections would be hobbled as well. "It would be a catastrophe for the cdu," said Axel Misch, a political science professor at the University of Saarland. "The implication is Merkel would have to resign, and I'm sure there would be major troubles within the party...
...elegant chignon; 28-year-old Zhao now favors body-hugging costumes. As Shen notes while adjusting the spaghetti strap of her low-cut tank top: "You have to make sure that everything appears right." In this sport, a double entendre may count for as much as a double Axel...
...last week when Thor Axel Kappfjell, 32, known by the oxymoron Human Fly, leaped from a 3,300-ft. cliff in his native Norway in a fog, was flung back by an ill wind onto the cliff's face and was killed. His death came 15 years after that of Carl Boenish, one of four people who invented BASE jumping in 1980; Boenish also died in a leap from a Norwegian cliff. Before one begins to hatch a Scandinavian-unhappiness theory to explain all this, it should be pointed out that BASE jumpers have died all over the world...
...reared and educated foreign-born princes, who then bore the title "child of the nursery." He believes Moses was one of these privileged foreigners, some of whom went on to serve as high officials in their adopted land. In an intriguing study published in 1988, the German scholar Ernst Axel Knauf speculated that the Moses story could have been built around a Syrian named Bay, who had served as Egypt's chief treasurer and ascended the throne as Ramose-khayemnetjeru. Civil war ensued, leading not only to his exile but also to that of his followers. Chancellor Bay, who flourished...
Eldredge too had high hopes of overcoming what seemed like a curse. After falling out of a simple double Axel and finishing 10th at the 1992 Olympics in Albertville, he failed even to qualify for a spot at Lillehammer, owing to a bout with the flu. Nagano looked promising. Eldredge ranked third after the short program, but bad luck returned to escort him through the long one. He turned two triple-triple jump combinations into triple-doubles, singled one triple Axel and fell while trying to insert another at the end. Watching the performance, his training partner and friend, gold...