Word: berliner
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...Association's President, Joey Berlin, has authored no criticism that I could find on line. His one published comment was a letter to the Los Angeles Times defending the sanctity of the press junket, in which the studios pay for reporters to come to Hollywood, pick up some swag and spend a few minutes chatting up stars and directors. Berlin extolled "the hard-working journalists who spend up to 40 or more weekends a year on the 'junket circuit,' gathering whatever juicy morsels they can to satisfy the insatiable appetite for news about Hollywood." And then they get to give...
...post of Minister of Culture. Paris' Mayor Bertrand Delanoë, tipped by some to contest the 2012 presidential race, is gay. And Guido Westerwelle, chairman of Germany's Free Democratic Party, has just become his country's Foreign Minister, joining a gay élite that includes the mayors of Berlin and Hamburg, Germany's two largest cities. Klaus Wowereit, Berlin's mayor, says coming out ahead of the 2001 mayoral race while under pressure from tabloids strengthened his campaign. "My confession might have contributed to my popularity," he says. "Many people appreciate honesty." (See a history of gay rights...
...discuss a host of issues: tax cuts, health care reform, Afghanistan - and the future direction of the government. Merkel is sure to be hoping that a consensus can be reached without the talks devolving into a food fight. (See pictures of the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall...
...have confidence that Merkel means what she says. "When it comes to crunch time" on Iran, says a senior U.S. State Department official, "we'll be looking closely at what Russia and China are willing to do. But we have no concerns about Germany." (See pictures of the Berlin Wall...
...people who have never tamed their impulses for fear of drawing the attention of malign authorities nor tempered their dreams before an authoritarian state can trample them, her self-control can seem inhuman. On Nov. 9, 1989, as East German authorities gave up the struggle and opened the Berlin Wall, Merkel kept her regular appointment at a sauna. But the Chancellor's poise and self-confidence cannot obscure the question that the challenges of Afghanistan and Iran pose to her nation: When you are as rich and secure as modern Germany now is, what are your obligations to the world...