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...never misses a chance to remind voters of Schröder's 1998 election pledge that if he couldn't reduce unemployment he wouldn't deserve re-election. Joblessness has increased by 1 million since he first took office. The cdu is pitching Merkel as honest and unvarnished. Posters depict the 51-year-old former research chemist as apple-cheeked and glowing in an apricot-colored jacket. She's also lightening up on the stump a bit, seeming surer, more relaxed and even cracking the occasional joke. The clean-cut, no-nonsense image is meant to make Merkel look more...
While issues such as crowding and cost cutting were factors for some of these districts, the change is driven largely by a series of studies that depict U.S. middle schools as the "Bermuda Triangle of education," as one report put it. It's the place where kids lose their way academically and socially--in many cases never to resurface. The most comprehensive report, a review of 20 years of educational research, was released last year by the Rand Corporation, the nonprofit research group in Santa Monica, Calif. Cheerfully titled Focus on the Wonder Years: Challenges Facing the American Middle School...
...teenagers. Last summer, when the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists unveiled a new public service announcement designed to combat teenage pregnancy, all three major TV networks balked. The reason: the announcement included the word contraceptives. These are the same networks that, as one ABC official put it, routinely depict intercourse to "the point of physical motion under the covers of a bed." Network officials have since relented, but the offending word has been dropped...
Benefactors sharpens its bite on the two marriages it portrays: one disintegrates, the other survives but lapses into isolation and cynicism. Frayn's novels, notably Sweet Dreams and Towards the End of the Morning, also evoke the slow decay of marriage and depict children as noisy housewreckers. His own marriage effectively ended with a separation five years ago; his frequent companion, as British newspapers phrase it, is Claire Tomalin, literary editor of the London Sunday Times. Frayn says he remains close to his daughters, one a novice BBC staffer, another a would-be journalist, the third applying to universities...
...Picasso's door, asking to meet the artist. "They told us to get lost," Botero laughs. Botero's plump, comical characters appear even when the subject matter is grim. Central to the exhibition in Rome are some of the darkest images Botero has ever created: 45 paintings and drawings depicting the Abu Ghraib prison abuses in Iraq. The canvases - including Abu Ghraib 43, which shows a bruised, hooded detainee tied to the bars of his cell - will be shown publicly for the first time in Rome, and depict agonized, bloodied prisoners being tortured and bound by U.S. military guards. Botero...