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...resolve a gargantuan conflict of interest, as owner of Italy's three main private television stations, made him controversial. So too did his frequent gaffes, unintended and otherwise, including telling Wall Street executives that Italy was worthy of investment for the beauty of its secretaries and calling a German politician "pefect for the part" of a Nazi prison guard in an upcoming film...
...While the M4 isn’t even close to reliable in its current state, a simple and affordable solution is already on the market. Heckler & Koch, a widely respected German defense contractor, has developed a drop-in part called the HK416 that rectifies that vast majority of the M4’s problems. When pitted against the regular M4 in “torture tests” that involved exposing the weapons to sandy and dusty conditions, the HK416 was proven to be almost four times more reliable than the standard-issue carbine...
This particular brand of angst spread comparatively late among Germans. Back in the mid-1990s, they were still more consumed with the economic consequences of German reunification. Pollsters say that only in the past five years or so did Germans look up and start worrying about the costs of globalization, and their concerns seem to be growing. Last month the country rose as one in protest when Finnish mobile-phone giant Nokia announced it was shutting down its plant in the Rhineland city of Bochum to move to Romania, threatening 2,300 German jobs. When the local SPD branch called...
...incumbent, Roland Koch, but she didn't quite surpass his vote tally. And the SPD fared poorly in Lower Saxony, where a clean-cut CDU candidate played to the center and the Left Party gnawed at the SPD's union base. But after 10 years in which German politics - and the SPD - remained largely in the political center, left-wing economic policies are winning votes again, marking a break with a decade of cautious reformism. That sets a new tone for elections in Hamburg and Bavaria later this year, as well as for federal elections in late 2009. In Berlin...
...German unease with globalization has some justification. True, rising exports have boosted corporate profits, joblessness is declining, and the economy grew by a respectable 2.5% in 2007. But real incomes, adjusted for inflation and taxes, are as low now as at any time since the 1980s. In a recent poll, 83% of Germans reported that they had not felt the benefits of Germany's recent economic recovery, and nor had their friends or relatives. "People are losing the feeling that if the economy is doing well, we are also doing well," says Allensbach spokesman Edgar Piel. The number of Germans...