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...competition between these two countries will serve only to enrich the profiteers and impoverish the rest of us. China pays low wages and has weak environmental standards. Its practices keep the poor poor. That isn't progress; it's modern-day slavery. Gerd Sch?nthaler Remscheid, Germany...
...artist. Montano Riva Barbaran Longare, Italy The competition between these two countries will serve only to enrich the profiteers and impoverish the rest of us. China pays low wages and has weak environmental standards. Its practices keep the poor poor. That isn't progress; it's modern-day slavery. Gerd Schönthaler Remscheid, Germany Car Trouble Your article "How GM Can Fix Itself" did a fine job of enumerating the problems created by General Motors' management [Dec. 5]. But it didn't address why advisers say hourly workers should take cuts in pay and benefits when the automaker frequently...
...less authoritarian style than his predecessor. That could prove useful in the delicate task of persuading the spd's left wing, led by a vigorous younger generation, to work in tandem with the Christian Democratic right. "This will commit the party to the grand coalition more than before," says Gerd Langguth, a political scientist at Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University in Bonn. Stoiber's exit, meanwhile, removes a powerful potential rival from Merkel's Cabinet. So predictions of the grand coalition's demise are premature, says Bernhard Wessel, a political scientist at Berlin's Free University. He calls Müntefering...
...Middle Ages, with the beggar in front of the church doors." Whatever government emerges will have to bridge the divides. But neither Schröder nor Merkel seems well suited to unify after a campaign in which both fought so fiercely. "The chemistry is terrible at the moment," concedes Gerd Langguth, a political scientist at the University of Bonn and cdu insider. A grand coalition of the two big parties seems like the most feasible option. But for that to happen either Merkel or Schröder will have to step down, and neither seems ready. "We are the biggest...
...larger-than-life Chancellor, tapped her as Minister for Women and Youth for his Cabinet in 1991. She established herself as both ambitious and willing to learn, outmaneuvering a succession of male colleagues to take the party leadership in 2000. "She's criticized for being timid," says political scientist Gerd Langguth, her biographer, "but she's a political panther...