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...Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel - in remarks that the White House immediately flagged to reporters and supporters in an "In Case You Missed It" e-mail alert - showed with convincing specificity that the White House still has a staunch friend in continental Europe. He said the Marshall Plan's lifeline to Austria after World War II "is really a good example to show that America has something to do with freedom, democracy, prosperity, development." He noted he was born in 1945, when Vienna and half of Austria lay in ruins. "Without the participation of America, what fate would have Europe? Where...
...fight the image: "It's not where you come from but where you are going that counts," he said, as if he had had to escape a deprived childhood. Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, a former ship's steward, targeted Cameron as part of an "Eton mafia." Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Cameron's likely opponent at the next election, also dismissed him as just "an Old Etonian." Any school for teenagers that politicians can use to curse their foes decades later has powerful magic indeed...
...president of Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.Other candidates whose names have been bandied about include Ruth J. Simmons, who, as president of Brown, is the first African-American leader of an Ivy League school. Tufts University President Lawrence S. Bacow has also been mentioned. Bacow, a former MIT chancellor, holds degrees from Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School of Government. University of California President Robert C. Dynes, Cornell Provost Carolyn Martin, and Washington University in St. Louis Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton are also prominent leaders in higher education.Some candidates from Harvard’s last search are again...
...make a list every 10 years and make sure you take the time to tell those people why they have had an influence on your life. All will be better for having done so. Nelson M. Fellman Voorhees, New Jersey, U.S. Re "Why Germans are smiling again," on German Chancellor Angela Merkel: I take exception to the idea that Germans are looking to the future with more optimism because of Merkel. Positive developments appeared in the country before the elections. The fact is that any reform, drastic or timid, will need some time to produce effects, especially when...
...press conference. Stasi victims in the audience greeted that statement with loud jeers. Germany was one of the first countries to provide public access to its communist-era secret police files - an estimated 6 million were made available in 1992. But last week, a commission established by former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder to consider new ways to examine the legacy of the G.D.R. recommended that the Stasi archive containing millions of personal files on ordinary citizens be closed to public view. The proposal drew accusations that Germany was trying to bury its past, although commission members insisted they merely...