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...environmental policy was ranked next to last, registering with just 8%. "Young Germans tend to let their belly decide who they vote for," says Stefanie Wahl of the Bonn-based think tank the Institute for Economic and Social Research. They have also embraced the traditional family values that their firebrand elders rejected. Not for them the lifestyle of Fischer - married four times and now divorced with a girlfriend half his age - or Schröder, who has a similar record. In a recent poll by the Forsa agency in Berlin, 87% of young people aged 18 to 30 said they...
...thrive on the type of open debate, rousing speeches, and out-and-out polemics that are held to be a valuable tonic to democratic institutions. The Fellows of Harvard College need consensus, good faith, calm deliberation, and open minds. It would not be sensible to recommend putting a radical firebrand on the Corporation. But the amicable consensus that permits the Corporation to run the University as it judges fit, out of the harsh glare of the public eye, need not be a rigid unanimity that threatens to blind the Corporation to the nature of the many problems that Harvard...
...unofficial Marxist cell, and I described myself as a Communist." Frayn's widowed father, an asbestos salesman and orthodox Laborite, was not amused. He declared that higher education was rubbish and that Michael should leave school to become a sales trainee. The son, more mole than firebrand, slowly undermined that plan and found his way to Cambridge, first as an army recruit sent to learn Russian, then as a full-time student. There he discovered, and was seduced by, the very class of society that Marxism had taught him to hate: socially adept, physically graceful and intellectually poised aristocrats. Recalls...
With his slight frame and unassuming expression, Kang Lingyi, 24, hardly looks like a firebrand. But the Internet executive is at the forefront of one of the most powerful movements in China today: nationalism. Kang got his first taste of patriotic power back in 1999, when NATO forces bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. Incensed by what he and other Chinese considered to be a deliberate attack, Kang joined 20,000 Chinese hackers who broke into several U.S. government websites, including that of the U.S. embassy in Beijing. Kang now runs one of several dozen patriotic websites, and he gets...
...Sunnis coming in to the political process may shun Zarqawi, but they appear to accept Baathist-led guerrilla fighters killing U.S. soldiers as part of the Sunni mainstream. Fears of full-blown sectarian warfare between Shiites and Sunnis, meanwhile, have prompted urgent mediation efforts by, among others, the firebrand Shiite maverick Moqtada Sadr. Sadr appears to be using the opportunity to regain political traction against rivals in organizations such as the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, which is the most influential party in the ruling coalition of prime minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari. But Sadr's efforts...