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There's a Gerhard Schröder joke making the rounds in Germany that perfectly captures the hapless Chancellor's predicament. Schröder tries to console an unemployed architect, telling him, "If I weren't Chancellor, I'd be building houses." The irate architect shoots back: "If you weren't Chancellor, I'd be building houses, too." Barely two months after he won re-election by a wafer-thin margin, Schröder's handling of the country's sputtering economy has made him the most unpopular leader in postwar Germany. People feel betrayed and lied to by Schr...
...days earlier never came up. Kennedy's famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, which roused the most thunderous audience response I have ever witnessed or felt, came after hours of touring the Berlin Wall while standing in the back of an open-air limo with Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer...
...more flexibility in shift work. But that would mean job losses, so the firefighters were furious, questioning whether Blair was trying to "pull a Maggie" - prove Thatcher-like toughness to win votes. Blair's goal isn't so much union-busting as long-term political survival. Last week the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, announced that the government had to borrow $31 billion this year because the slowing economy is depleting tax receipts - the first big blot on his record of fiscal wizardry. Unless the economy rebounds, that number may well have to grow. A big raise...
Warren Professor of American History Akira Iriye spearheaded a drive by two dozen prominent historians who sent a letter last week to the chancellor of the City University of New York (CUNY) protesting the system’s decision not to reappoint Robert David “KC” Johnson...
Last Tuesday, Iriye, Fichtner and 19 other historians from around the country—including Warren Professor of American History Ernest May and Columbia University historian Alan Brinkley—sent their letter to the CUNY chancellor expressing “shock and dismay” at Johnson’s treatment...