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...Sept. 18, the people's message was that nobody wins. It is tempting to compare Germany '05 with the U.S. presidential election in Florida five years ago, but wrong. In Florida, after much counting and recounting, somebody won?George W. Bush. Yet in Germany, Gerhard Schr?der, the Social Democrat, was trounced?and so was Angela Merkel, his Christian-Democratic challenger. The Chancellor and his junior partner, the Greens, lost their majority, but Frau Merkel and her allies, the Free Democrats (FDP), did not gain one. The Social Democrat-Green coalition was out, but the center-right...
...Such calamity might befall Italy, but Germany, the rock of stability ?ber alles? It gets worse. There is no obvious way to cobble together a majority that can govern Germany for the next four years. Theoretically, the Social Democrat-Green coalition could recruit the FDP. But the party's chairman insists that he won't get into bed with Schr?der's Social Democrats and Joschka Fischer's Greens. On the right side of the political divide, Merkel could try to pry the Greens out of Schr?der's embrace. Arithmetically, this is a fetching idea; ideologically, it is not. How would...
...little after noon in oxford, England, last Thursday when Gina Policelli got the news by phone. No, no one called her up; she tuned in her mobile phone to bbc News 24 and caught the latest reports of the Liberal Democrat party conference, then flipped over to Sky News, all while standing on the Oxford University campus. "This is really impressive," gushed Policelli, 25, who works at the National Library for Health at the university. Welcome to the world of mobile television, where broadcasters, mobile operators and handset makers are trying to bring traditional TV to the planet's mobile...
...Raised in a poor section of the city, he went to college on a baseball scholarship, got an MBA and rose to be a $400,000-a-year vice president at the cable giant Cox Communications. In 2002, Nagin, who had never run for public office, ran as a Democrat and won in a landslide. "I'm confident I appeal to just about every segment of the population here, and that's never happened in this city," says Nagin, who is black. He raised eyebrows again in 2003 when he backed a Republican against Democrat Kathleen Blanco in the governor...
...convicted, he faces up to three years in jail, though few expect such an outcome. Instead, the penalty may be paid by all Turks who support the move to join the E.U. The European Commission is due to begin accession talks with Turkey on Oct. 3, but Dutch Christian Democrat M.E.P. Camiel Eurlings wants negotiations suspended if the trial goes ahead. Pamuk hopes his case will not count against Turkey's bid. "This is without doubt an example of utmost intolerance," he told Time. "But I don't want that intolerance to be an obstacle in Turkey's road toward...