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There'll be an unfamiliar face at Angela Merkel's side when the German Chancellor travels to President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, on Friday - Germany's "first gentleman," Joachim Sauer. Unlike other head-of-state spouses in Germany and elsewhere, Sauer is rarely seen at his wife's side as she carries out her duties as the world's most powerful woman...
...June, to motivate low-income students to perform well on standardized tests. “This is one of several student motivation proposals the Department is developing,” David Cantor, a spokesman, wrote in an e-mail. “It has not been approved by the Chancellor or Mayor,” he added. Fryer, who has been leading this project and was appointed the Chief Equality Officer for the city’s Department of Education earlier this year, asked students not to talk to the media about the cell phone proposal, people in the class...
...magazine, TIME's sister publication. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson swung through to talk at the Forum with globalization guru Thomas Friedman and to meet with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to lobby for the U.S.-India nuclear deal, which is at risk of rejection in the Indian Parliament. German Chancellor Angela Merkel began a four-day trip designed to boost trade and to talk to her counterpart about global warming. And was that Washington's elder statesman Henry Kissinger quietly slipping through the lobby of the Imperial Hotel? Indeed...
...Even with that substantial bump, Sarkozy's new remuneration won't be the envy of many of his international peers. The annual salary of U.S. President George W. Bush, for example, is $494,000, versus $384,000 for U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and $391,000 for German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Sarkozy's official income is also dwarfed by that of European pay champion, Ireland's Bertie Ahern, who pulls in a cool $446,000. Nadine Morano, spokeswoman of Sarkozy's ruling Union for a Popular Movement party, argued that the increase was insignificant when viewed in broader terms. "Think...
...Democratic Socialism' for us remains the vision of a free just and solidly united society, " the party declared in its closing statement. That statement, like the speed limit idea, drew a rebuke from Merkel. "We don't want a return to socialism," said the Chancellor, who who grew up in communist East Germany. "We had enough of that in [there]." Analysts say the new ideas from the SPD have the virtue of bringing out in the open policies that had divided the party - and the government - for some time. "The cards are now on the table," the Suddeutsche Zeitung editorialized...