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There's something different about Angela Merkel. Germans remain spellbound by the novelty of a female Chancellor, but it's her down-to-earth manner that really sets her apart. There isn't a politician in Europe today who would not be giddy with delight if they racked up the approval ratings Merkel has been scoring - 80% in February, the highest for any German Chancellor since World War II. But the former physics lecturer is not one to get carried away with fripperies like opinion polls. A participant at a recent meeting with business leaders in Berlin tells...
...flat contribution unrelated to income; the spd wants everyone to pay in, including some groups, such as the self-employed, who have thus far been exempt.) Merkel's government has set itself a deadline of the summer recess in July to come up with a draft compromise. The Chancellor must find a way to balance the egalitarian impulse of the spd, which could impose a heavier burden on employers and increase the cost of labor, against the free-market instincts of her own party, which may not find a way to raise enough cash. But the government also...
...that German women face when they try to combine career and family. We want our women to take part in the professional and cultural life of our society. The problem is that our government does very little to support working mothers. We hope that Angela Merkel, our first woman Chancellor, may be able to promote policies that bring mothers into the workforce. The combining of career and children has to be made possible in the nearest future. We have a strong will to integrate women in all parts of social life, but the government has to help us make that...
...Evey collide by chance on the eve of Guy Fawkes Day (an annual British celebration that few Americans are likely to have heard of before watching the film) and are drawn together by a plan to save England from the clutches of Sutler (John Hurt), a malevolent Hilter-esque Chancellor. The film chronicles the struggles of Evey and V over a full year against the countercurrent of Sutler and his minions who are determined to quash their terrorist plot...
...logical conclusion, could easily justify an outright ban on all public expression. Further, the administration admirably stood by the Salient’s rights to free expression while other schools were not as supportive (at the University of Illinois, two student editors were reprimanded by the University chancellor, who wrote a letter criticizing the newspaper for publishing the cartoons...