Word: berliner
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...that the Spragues just took a casual interest in running, but perhaps it does have something to do with family genes. Their great grandfather held a cross country record at Van Cortlandt Park in New York and qualified for the 1916 summer Olympics, which would have been held in Berlin, Germany, had it not been cancelled due to World...
...best ever result in Sunday's election, winning 15% of the vote; after 11 years in opposition, the party is finally back in government. "We will now co-govern Germany," Guido Westerwelle, the leader of the FDP, told a crowd of supporters at an election night rally in Berlin on Sunday. "We want a fair tax system, better education opportunities and we want to ensure that citizens' rights are respected," he said. (See pictures of world leaders including Merkel on vacation...
...polite posturing of Germany's election campaign captures the mood in most European capitals at the moment. Both Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right Christian Democrats and the center-left Social Democrats of Frank-Walter Steinmeier remain committed to Berlin's 4,000-strong troop deployment in Afghanistan as part of the multinational force there. But Die Linke, a smaller, left-wing party, has won support by campaigning on an immediate withdrawal, and as public support for the Afghanistan mission falls even the mainstream leaders are having to take notice. Steinmeier has recently hinted that he would pull troops...
...fighting starts to heat up again next spring, and the U.S. leans on its allies in Europe for more troops, opposition to the Afghanistan campaign is likely to grow. The consequences of a withdrawal could be awful. But the clamor for it is getting louder. - Reported by William Boston / Berlin, Leo Cendrowicz / Brussels, Bruce Crumley / Paris and Catherine Mayer / London...
With reporting by Henning Hoff and Catherine Mayer / Berlin...