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...plunging. The young politician was elected to the German parliament just seven years ago representing the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) party, which is aligned with Chancellor Merkel's party. A fluent English speaker, he soon made a name for himself in parliament as a foreign policy and defense expert. But it wasn't until last fall, when the CSU went into meltdown after suffering big losses in the Bavarian state elections that Zu Guttenberg was thrown into the spotlight. Last November the rising star won his party's top job. When Michael Glos quit his job as Economy Minister...
...Guttenberg's biggest challenge is how to develop concepts to deal with the recession. Up until now, the Economics Ministry has failed to do this," Gustav Horn, the director of Duesseldorf's Macroeconomic Policy Institute says. "Mr Guttenberg is a good PR man - he's not an economic policy expert. The minister will have to decide what to do with the ongoing economic crisis and he's bound to come under growing pressure to introduce another fiscal stimulus package...
...last of the Mohicans. All of the other big cartels have been decapitated. That is why they want him so badly." - Jorge Chabat, a Mexico City expert on law enforcement, on the government's inability to catch him despite the arrests of 18 cartel leaders since 2001 (Los Angeles Times, July 5, 2005) "People see Chapo Guzman as the social bandit, as a Robin Hood. He fixes up the towns and puts lights in the cemetery. He is part of Sinaloan folklore." - Victor Hugo Aguilar, a professor at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, on Guzman's influence over the region...
Within days the President is expected to name a longtime public health expert, Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, as FDA Administrator. Dr. Hamburg, 53, known as Peggy, would be the latest in a string of high-achievers to join the Obama administration, with double degrees from Harvard and a successful run as New York City's youngest health commissioner under her belt...
...Zaidi as a political scapegoat. Nibras Maamorie, a correspondent with Iraq's Sumaria television station, said al-Zaidi's actions were an embarrassment to the country and to his profession. "He's set a bad example for journalists in Iraq," she said. "I'm not a legal expert - I don't know if he should have been sentenced - but as a journalist, I reject his actions...