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...killed in a high-speed car accident on Oct. 11. Since then, Europe's newspapers, especially those in Germany, have published stories and photographs of the leader surrounded by young men in what the newspapers call gay bars. "Was Haider Living a Double Life?" the mass-market German daily Bild blared this week. A later story showed photographs of Haider's deputy, Stefan Petzner, in low-cut jeans, a dolphin tattooed...
...even the federal government isn't a brilliant manager. Last month, on the very day Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, state-owned KfW sent a check to Lehman in New York for $466 million - earning itself the title "Germany's dumbest bank" bestowed by the biggest circulation tabloid, Bild-Zeitung...
...media can barely contain their excitement. "Germany Meets the Superstar" read the front page of the weekly Der Spiegel in reference to a popular TV show, while the tabloid Bild called Obama "Berlin's New Kennedy!" and gushed, "It's like 1963," describing the presidential candidate as "just as young, sexy and charismatic" as John F. Kennedy. And that's before he's even set foot here...
...subcultural phenomenon may now be finding its way into the mainstream. Months before Roche's book was published, 27-year-old German-Turkish rapper Lady Bitch Ray caused a media scandal in a TV interview that included "74 sex words in 75 minutes," by the count of Bild, the tabloid newspaper. TV host Harald Schmidt was prompted to nominate the factions in a new German Kulturkampf: "The shaved against the unshaved, the washed against the unwashed...
...Fearing that public trust in the economic system could erode more quickly, some business leaders are beginning to sound the alarm. In an interview in Monday's edition of the tabloid Bild, Josef Ackermann, the CEO of Deutsche Bank, joined the chorus of voices warning against a loss of public faith in the country's economic institutions. "All of us in business must now make a renewed effort to live up to the responsibilities of our leadership roles and win back lost confidence," he was quoted as saying...