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...consult on difficult calls is a great loss for the fans and athletes. The human eye is not always able to determine correctly whether a player is offside or has committed a foul. Today, any decision has a great impact on everyone involved, both financially and emotionally. Kees van der Pligt Amsterdam It was heartbreaking to see Italy's triumphant World Cup team on the cover instead of Zinédine Zidane and the French squad he led. Zidane was punished for head butting Marco Materazzi, but what about Materazzi? Won't he be punished too? He must have said...
...rebels in his Cabinet. He called them "bastards" and promised to "crucify them." French President Jacques Chirac heated up the old Anglo-Franco rivalry at a 2005 summit in Russia. Unaware that a French journalist still had a microphone switched on, Chirac joked with German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Russian President Vladimir Putin that "the only thing [Britain has] ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease ... you can't trust people who cook as badly as that. After Finland [Britain is] the country with the worst food...
...neighbor and then punished it for voting wrong by turning off its gas supply has to be at least on informal probation at a meeting of the world's industrial democracies." Reunification Other neighbors are uncomfortable, too. Russia and Germany agreed in the final days of Gerhard Schröder's Chancellorship to build a pipeline bypassing Poland - thus making it possible to turn off energy supplies to Poland without affecting Germany. Polish Defense Minister Radek Sikorski likened the deal to the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact carving up his country on the eve of World War II. He was more diplomatic...
...historical fear of its giant neighbor to the east, and partly because it worries about losing out if Russia and Germany work closely together. Germany, meanwhile, which is Russia's biggest West European customer, seems to be pushing toward greater reliance on Russian sources. Former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has taken a job as head of the supervisory board of a joint venture between Gazprom and two German firms that is building an underwater gas pipeline linking Russia and Germany. Roland Götz, head of the Russia department at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs...
...once in East Germany, has a population of about 60,000 and is famous for a local berry drink that tastes like flat, bitter orange soda. All that matters to the President, though, is that Stralsund was once represented in the Bundestag by Angela Merkel, who unseated Gerhard Schröder last fall to become Germany's first female Chancellor. Bush and Schröder barely spoke, but Bush and Merkel hit it off when she visited the White House in January, and the overnight Stralsund detour is indicative of the President's new stab at European diplomacy: find friends, even...