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During the fiscal year ending in 2008, University President Drew G. Faust took home $693,739—a salary that makes Faust the 56th highest paid university president in the country.
Westerwelle also opened up a can of worms last week by raising the controversial issue of Turkey's E.U. membership bid while on a trip to Ankara. The Foreign Minister voiced support for the country's accession talks - stalled for years by opposition from Germany and France - by saying it...
But perhaps even more surprising is the criticism she is receiving from within her own party. On Jan. 10, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper published an open letter signed by four regional CDU parliamentary leaders that said that Merkel owed her electoral victory to luck rather than a convincing campaign...
The letter prompted a wave of attacks on Merkel's leadership in the German media. The country's biggest-selling tabloid, Bild am Sonntag, ran a headline on its front page reading, "The Men's Rebellion Against Merkel," while the Süddeutsche paper published a commentary saying that the...
But if Rosenberg's intent was to challenge Colom's legitimacy, he appears to have done the opposite. "Colom's position has been enormously strengthened. He comes out not only vindicated but looking like a statesman," says Anita Isaacs, a Guatemala expert at Haverford College who has testified before the...