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...idea for a distance learning consortium stems from a Yale Corporation visit to Stanford's campus this past fall, when Yale University President Richard C. Levin talked to Stanford University President Gerhard Casper, the source said...
...higher growth path" to shrink their high levels of unemployment. The Continent's major weakness, he said, was a comparative lack of private investment, which grew in Germany at one-quarter the U.S. rate over the past five years. A huge German corporate tax cut proposed by Chancellor Gerhard Schroder would make a big difference, but if Europe's most powerful economy wanted to imitate the entrepreneurial culture of the U.S., he said, "you should look to reforming personal income...
...Germany's Social Democratic Party. Perhaps too well. The Social Democrats rode the wave of the centrist "Third Way" politics that swept Western Europe in the late 90s to wrest control from the CDU in 1998 and end Helmut Kohl's 15-year reign as chancellor. Now Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is enjoying high approval ratings and the weakened CDU isn't even opposing the Social Democrats in two key upcoming state elections. But the Social Democrats' top brass weren't gloating Wednesday when CDU chief Wolfgang Schaeuble resigned over the campaign-funding scandal centered around Kohl. The $20 million fine...
...addition to rewriting Europe's business rules, the Mannesmann deal marked a political watershed. When Vodafone's proposal was first announced, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder issued a thinly veiled warning about outsiders interfering with Germany's corporate system. But in the intervening months, although labor unions expressed concern about the deal, the government never again raised the issue in a substantive...
...that anybody puts himself outside the legal system," Wulff said last week, referring to Kohl's refusal to name the source of illegal contributions to the party. A big liability for Wulff is that he is the C.D.U.'s party leader in Lower Saxony, home of the current Chancellor, Gerhard Schroder. In the last election in Lower Saxony, Schroder's Social Democratic Party whipped Wulff and the C.D.U...