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...more strongly than before. It's not been a winning strategy. According to the latest Forsa poll, backing for the party is down to 28%, from 39% six months ago (Merkel's cdu stands at 38%). The spd is also suffering fallout from the tarnished image of former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who took a €250,000 job with a subsidiary of the Russian giant Gazprom shortly after leaving office, raising questions about his judgement; and because its ministers have been associated with unpopular government pronouncements. Wolfgang Thierse, a veteran spd deputy and vice president of the Bundestag...
...conjoined just on the ice. Since most compete in low-revenue sports, the lugers, sledders and skaters often bunk up to save costs. Grimmette doubles as Martin's landlord, renting him a bedroom in his Lake Placid house; during the warm summer months, a top Italian luge team, Gerhard Plankensteiner and Oswald Haselrieder, live and work together as forest rangers in Cortina. They share hotel rooms on the road and put in long hours prepping for competition. "We're like married couples," says Todd Hays, the top U.S. bobsled driver, sharing a sentiment echoed by dozens of athletes in these...
...athletes aren't conjoined just on the ice. Since most compete in low-revenue sports, the lugers, sledders and skaters often bunk up to save costs. Grimmette doubles as Martin's landlord, renting him a bedroom in his Lake Placid house; during the summer, a top Italian luge team, Gerhard Plankensteiner and Oswald Haselrieder, live and work together as forest rangers in Cortina. They share hotel rooms on the road and put in long hours prepping for competition. "We're like married couples," says Todd Hays, the top U.S. bobsled driver, sharing a sentiment echoed by dozens of athletes...
...compromise in the gas-price talks. Spokesman Adam Ereli allowed only that the dispute "is a question of energy supply that we and the Europeans are all following closely." Indeed, Putin seems eager to secure Western political influence at high levels: last month, he persuaded former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder to become chairman of a company building a new gas pipeline from Russia to Western Europe that will bypass Ukraine by going under the Baltic Sea. Putin also offered a top job at a Russian state-owned oil company to former U.S. Commerce Secretary Donald Evans; Evans declined...
...things they had sworn they would never do. Although as a nonprofit they are forbidden to lobby for legislation, they are allowed to "educate." They opened an office in Washington and began meeting with politicians all over the world, including British Prime Minister Tony Blair, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, French President Jacques Chirac and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice...