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...GERMANY The E.U.'s Future German proposals for a strong European executive with more legislative and economic powers drew a cool response from other E.U. countries. The plan, drawn up by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's Social Democratic Party, would create a new European legislative chamber to take the place of the Council of Ministers, and would give the European Parliament total control over the European Union budget. France's European Affairs Minister, Pierre Moscovici, summarily rejected the plan. Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands reacted positively, but Austria and Denmark warned against the creation of an E.U. "superstate...
...chancellor of MIT, Lawrence S. Bacow, has been picked to lead Tufts, and the dean of NYU law school, John E. Sexton, has been appointed the head of that institution...
...professor of environmental studies at MIT, Bacow has been chancellor there for three years...
...deal became feasible after the government of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder last year pushed through an end to the 50% capital gains tax for corporations, which had led many firms to sit on their investments. "The end of the capital gains tax is facilitating the restructuring of the financial sector in Germany and the eurozone," says Thomas Mayer, chief economist at Goldman Sachs in Frankfurt. "An acquisition currency has become usable with the elimination of capital gains...
...challenged readers to "sign up for the most important job in New York City." Fogel was among the job switchers who answered similar ads last year. In August he and 349 other recruits attended a pep-rally orientation for New York Fellows, an accelerated-certification program started by schools chancellor Harold Levy. "Urban education," Levy told the group, "has the same moral force as the civil rights movement." After four weeks of all-day classes on teaching methods and lesson plans, the 323 who stuck with the training, and who passed two required state exams, were face to face with...