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...election, the Republicans received 9.1% of the votes in Baden-Württemberg, but the prognosis for this year is just 5%. "I think this year the Republicans will do less well than last time," says Hajo Funke, an expert on the extreme right at the Free University of Berlin. "They're on the sidelines...
This month New Hampshire residents could have reversed the lies and humiliation inflicted on the American veterans of the Spanish Civil War. Sixty years after the Spanish Civil War, 10 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a room filled with New Hampshire citizens debated whether to honor the veterans with a plaque in the State House. The plaque had been approved by the legislature's Historical Committee, but House conservatives abruptly ordered its removal, disappointing sons and daughters of Spanish Civil War veterans who had traveled long distances to attend the ceremony...
...nast overcame her parents' wish that she drop out of school in the ninth grade to learn a trade. Instead, she went to a technical high school and then to university, where she earned a law degree. With her punk hair style, she seems the embodiment of trendy Berlin, a world apart from the farms of rural Germany. The leftist taz newspaper described Künast as "a bigmouth from [Berlin's neighborhood of] Kreuzberg, who can hardly tell a Holstein cow from a Vietnamese water buffalo...
...very happy with what she says, less happy with what she's doing," says Thomas Dosch, president of Bioland, the largest association of organic farmers in Germany. Their complaint: Künast has done little to reform the Agriculture Ministry, which stayed in Bonn when the government moved to Berlin. As a result, Dosch says, the ministry remains dominated by old-style officials who give short shrift to new farming methods...
...Japanese filmmaker Kaze Shindo's first film Love/Juice, an am-I-or-aren't-I lesbian story that won her Rookie of the Festival award in Berlin three weeks ago. Interesting territory even for Japan: two roommates, lesbian photographer Chinatsu (Okuno Mika) and friend Kyoko (Chika Fujimura), do drugs, sleep and brush teeth together. Chinatsu quickly falls in love with Kyoko. They kiss and touch one another - Chinatsu shows the uninitiated Kyoko how to masturbate - but the latter recoils from physical love. A stronger movie would have started where this one leaves off, but it's a compact, spare tale...