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...addition to rewriting Europe's business rules, the Mannesmann deal marked a political watershed. When Vodafone's proposal was first announced, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder issued a thinly veiled warning about outsiders interfering with Germany's corporate system. But in the intervening months, although labor unions expressed concern about the deal, the government never again raised the issue in a substantive...
Five weeks later, on Feb. 9, Lindner was in the White House at a state dinner honoring German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. After entertainment by Tony Bennett and a German chorus, Lindner went upstairs to bed. Less than two weeks later, he was back in the White House for coffee...
...York, schools chief Rudy Crew was ousted in December, following a tussle with Mayor Rudy Giuliani over Crew's resistance to an experimental voucher plan and his public reluctance to commit quickly to a renewal of his contract. Hired in 1995 to run a system facing its 10th chancellor in 12 years, Crew says now, "I knew no one survives in this job very long." In his last year, his relationship with the mayor and the school board deteriorated. Giuliani's growing sense that Crew "should be more willing to destroy the system that he runs" and Crew's political...
...November he was hailed at the Brandenburg Gate as a national hero for deftly steering his country through the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989; now he is demonized as a national embarrassment. The mass-circulation magazine Stern ran Kohl's photo on its cover showing the former Chancellor dappled with mud. He was lampooned on television's most popular interview show as "Helmut Kohleone," the Teutonic equivalent of the Godfather. Throughout his public humiliation, Kohl, 69, has remained defiant. Since the scandal first erupted late last year, he has steadily refused to name the sources of at least...
...moment is Christian Wulff, 40, an attorney who is the party's deputy chairman. Wulff is telegenic and one of the leaders of the "Jungen Wilden," the Young Wild Ones, a group of up-and-coming, fortysomething local politicians in the C.D.U. Wulff was an early critic of former Chancellor Helmut Kohl's, even trying to block Kohl from running for a fifth term in 1998. "The C.D.U. does not accept that anybody puts himself outside the legal system," Wulff said last week, referring to Kohl's refusal to name the source of illegal contributions to the party...