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...sister party, the Christian Social Union, also quit, claiming he could not work with anyone but his close friend Müntefering. Angela Merkel's attempt to stitch together a government as Germany's first female Chancellor was thrown into doubt. are you politicians crazy? ran a headline in Bild, a conservative tabloid. "Jobs at long last," joked the Tageszeitung, a left-wing daily, noting the new vacancies at the top. But these high-profile departures may not be all bad news. Müntefering's replacement is Brandenburg governor Matthias Platzeck, who's reputed to have a more pragmatic...
...floating in the water amid bodies and debris for eight hours. Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl watched the tsunami from the third-floor balcony of his hotel room in Thalpe, Sri Lanka. "I recalled images from the war, which I experienced as a boy," Kohl wrote in the tabloid Bild. "It appeared as if after a heavy bombing raid." Amid so much death and heartbreak, there were also miracles. A 10-year-old British girl, Tilly Smith, was credited with saving 100 lives by recognizing the signs of a tsunami and sounding a warning in time to clear Maikhao Beach...
...problem? Klaus Ochsner, president of Germany's pet-trade industry body, the ZZF, suggested that most of the goods are made not by Germans but by low-wage, Far East producers. "The Chancellor's wife ... is insulting the pet industry and endangering German jobs," he told industry title Tier Bild. Rossmann claimed that while the products come from all over, "an exact specification is not possible." If Schröder can't find a better line than that, he may end up in the doghouse. Holiday Hookups A rash of late-year megamergers struck the U.S., including health-care firm...
...Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank reported healthy profits in the first three months of 2004, after heavy losses for the same period last year, a sign that German banks can succeed by cutting excess retail staff and pruning bad debt. Media companies like Axel Springer, publisher of Bild and Die Welt, are bouncing back from a crippling advertising drought. Companies are winning important labor concessions. Siemens just sealed deals with workers in two of its mobile-phone factories to increase the workweek from 35 to 40 hours--with no increase in pay. And DaimlerChrysler won $600 million in wage concessions...
...become permanent next year after a seven-year interim period in which both the old and new spellings were accepted. But two weeks ago two of Germany's biggest media companies - Spiegel-Verlag, owner of Der Spiegel, the country's largest newsmagazine, and Axel Springer Verlag, which owns Bild, Germany's biggest circulation newspaper - announced they were going back to the old rules. "Out of a feeling of responsibility for future generations, we recommend to others that they too put a halt to the state-ordered dyslexia and return to classic German spelling," the publishers said. The committee rolling...