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...disappointment to many from both east and west who hoped the capital's reunification would lead to a more prosperous future, and their frustration is now seeping into the city's cultural and nightlife. "There's a mood of great uncertainty," says Giovanni di Lorenzo, editor of the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel. "People know they will have to make sacrifices." Heading the list of Berlin's problems is the financial crisis facing the municipal government. The Berlin city council, known as the Senate, will present its 2004 budget next week. According to Finance Minister Thilo Sarrazin, Berlin has a j46 billion...
...about the falling U.S. dollar; about advancing global free trade but not about cutting agricultural subsidies; about weapons of mass destruction but not - heaven forfend - about Iraq. There was one topic, however, on which Messrs. Berlusconi, Blair, Bush, Chirac, Chrétien, Koizumi, Putin and Schröder talked real money: combatting aids in Africa, where it kills some 6,500 people a day, most of them women and children. It should have been the perfect topic for French President Jacques Chirac. As the host of this year's G-8, he invited leaders from the developing world to attend...
...handicrafts have to answer. What we need is a radical reduction of additional wage costs via reform of the pension and healthcare systems." Philipp may not get what he wants. Michael Sommer, head of the German Trade Union Federation (DGB), is leading the opposition to Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's plans to trim back state benefits and make it easier for employers to lay off workers. Backed by left-wing members of Schröder's own ruling Social Democrats, Sommer warned there was a "danger" that the unions would break with the Chancellor if it wasn't possible...
...just that. In 1986, a Swiss reporter named Oswald Iten returned to the rain forest and found the Tasaday wearing Levi's jeans and T shirts. They said that they were local farmers who had been coerced previously into playing cavemen. A few weeks later, a team from Der Stern arrived, led by the Tasaday's original discoverer, and found them once again wearing leaves. That, supposedly, proved they were fake. Comparisons were drawn with Piltdown Man, the great paleoanthropological hoax of the early 20th century...
...secretary of State Colin Powell spent a day in Berlin last week trying to patch up post-Iraq diplomatic damage, the question was clear: Does either side really want to make nice? Before Powell held talks with Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, he met briefly with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, with whom he was photographed shaking hands. Will the Chancellor enjoy the same photo op with President George W. Bush when the two attend summits in Russia and France in late May and early June? The two haven't spoken since November. The Germans have made it clear that Schr...