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...Turkish parents blame the German school system, which they say does not offer enough language training. School officials in turn blame parental indifference. "This is an empty debate and one that is conducted on the backs of the children," says Cem Ozdemir, 34, a Turkish-German member of the Bundestag. Ozdemir believes parents should realize "how important it is for them to promote their kids' language skills" at home. Educational authorities, he says, should draw up "intercultural curricula," organize more German and integration courses down to the kindergarten level and better prepare teachers to work with foreign-born pupils...
...fall of Kohl took on elements of a Greek tragedy, complete with reversals of fortune and fatal character flaws. It probably reached a nadir late last week, when Wolfgang Hullen, the official in charge of finance for the C.D.U.'s parliamentary faction, hanged himself at home as the Bundestag opened its investigation into the funding scandal. While the reasons for the suicide remain hazy, Hullen apparently feared being arrested for diverting some of the party's huge cash flow into his own account. But he's not likely to be the scandal's last victim. It has already touched...
...Germans have no hard evidence of criminality but an abiding fear of extremism in any form. The Christian Democrats call Scientology "totalitarian." A Social Democratic member of the Bundestag says it is "fascist." When a German delegation met with U.S. officials on the issue late last year, the Americans argued that if there is evidence of illegality, the Scientologists should be prosecuted under existing laws. The Germans replied that, well, there wasn't enough evidence for a trial, but even so, their government "has a responsibility to protect its citizens." Washington agrees that the lid should be kept on dangerous...
They're talking about it in the Bundestag and they're petrified of it in Beijing. In Washington, DC, they like it, but fear it will spiral out of control. Governments around the globe have caught Internet fever and are struggling to regulate this new electronic behemoth...
Well, possibly a larger majority. He and his partners from the Christian Social Union and the Free Democratic Party will control the new 672-member Bundestag by only 10 seats -- a drop of 124 from four years ago. No one has forgotten how swiftly and confidently Kohl engineered Germany's unification, but this electoral decline is about what has happened since then. It marks the price he paid for a steep post-union recession, now ending, and the resentment felt in both eastern and western Germany over the high cost of bringing them together. Even so, unified Germany stuck with...