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...wife is pleased with it. The Chancellor is not.' FRANZ MÜENTEFERING, top Social Democrat in Germany's coalition government headed by Christian Democrat Chancellor Angela Merkel, on his decision to step down as Vice Chancellor in order to take care of his wife, who is suffering from cancer...
...endorsement couldn't have come at a better time for Fred Thompson. The folksy former actor got off to a rocky start with social conservatives--advertising his spotty church attendance, punting on questions about Terri Schiavo and displaying insufficient opposition to gay marriage. But Thompson recently hired a top Christian Right activist to improve relations. And in a new TV ad in Iowa, he boasts of his antiabortion record and asks viewers to "remember that our rights come from God, not from government." He'll be looking now for a pro-life boost in the polls...
...odyssey with Christianity began last summer at Wal-Mart, when I saw a teen New Testament amongst the romance novels and bargain blenders. Since I’m Jewish, I’d never gotten to read the Holy Bible and was quite curious. Sadly, it lacked a barcode; the cashier wasn’t able to sell it to me despite her declaration that not owning it “was a shame, because that’s one good book to have.” I took her words to heart and began my quest to understand...
Better yet, we have no Fundamentalist Christian tradition, and the level of born-again tub thumping is mercifully low--though there are signs that as a result of American cultural influence, it is creeping up among the young. Any political candidate who declared that God was on his side would be laughed off the podium as an idiot or a wowser (prude, intrusive bluenose...
...ntefering was a key figure of compromise in Germany's ruling partnership between Merkel's center right Christian Democratic Union and the SPD, the two "volksparteien" that have ruled Germany in coalition since 2005. He may be best known outside Germany for his disparaging remarks in 2005 comparing hedge funds to "locusts" that descend on a country and strip it bare (a comment of which he remained proud, keeping a statue of the insect on his desk). But Müntefering was in fact a more centrist figure than many of his party colleagues. Newspapers referred...