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...understand that right away at his new student center at the Illinois Institute, a campus designed and once headed by none other than Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Thanks to the sleeve for the railway that sits atop the center's V-shaped roof, it has an aggressively awkward exterior, like a shed being crushed by a giant auto muffler. Inside it's a kind of bright angular cyclotron designed for the purpose of accelerating human fusion. By encouraging students to literally cross paths at every turn, it offers itself as a substitute for the city that once bordered closely...
TOBIAS SCHWARZ/REUTERS First it was a lawsuit to prevent speculation on whether he dyes his hair. Now German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has won a court case forcing a publisher to remove a photograph from the cover of a fictional thriller. Why? Because Schröder thinks it looks too much like him. Publisher Betzel Verlag says it has recalled copies of The End of the Chancellor - The Final Shot. In the tale, the pharmacist hero shoots a German Chancellor he blames for his business bankruptcy. A spokeswoman for Betzel says Schröder is never mentioned...
...Security Afghanistan 's interim government may be inexperienced, but it's already learned one valuable skill: how to raise money. At a conference in Berlin of international donors, opened by German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, the government of President Hamid Karzai drummed up $8.2 billion in pledges over the next three years, with $4.4 billion for this year alone, surpassing even the government's wish list. But as Karzai admitted, the big donations don't mean the country's problems are close to being solved. With elections just six months away, says Barnett Rubin of the Center on International...
...getting awfully lonely at the top for German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller. Their austerity drives have angered voters, alienated supporters - and inspired the creation of new leftist parties to oppose reform. Since coming to power in 1998, Schröder's Social Democratic Party (SPD) has lost 125,000 members - 16% of the total - primarily because of the government's effort to cut back the welfare state. According to a recent Forsa poll published in Stern magazine, 64% of those surveyed think Schröder's reforms are wrong, and 76% find them...
...makes his periodic Delphic statements about the financial system. But the Federal Reserve chairman set a new whazzat? standard recently when he suggested that the millions of homeowners who proudly hold a fixed-rate mortgage--roughly 80% of all those with a mortgage--are committing a financial blun-der that may cost them thousands of dollars a year...