Word: german
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...Christian Democrat black with Social Democratic red - the government will appear oddly colorless. Missing from any Cabinet will be the country's brightest politician, Joschka Fischer, 57, Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor since 1998. The street-fighting iconoclast who settled happily into a role at the peak of the German establishment, and whose international fame and personal popularity always seemed out of kilter with the modest size of his Green party, has retired from frontline politics. He left the Bundestag, the seat of parliament in central Berlin, with a wave at waiting reporters and a typically informal salutation: "Ciao, ragazzi...
...trenchant wit to the Greens, which he joined in 1982, just two years after the party was founded. He was the first Green to take a government post, wearing sneakers to his swearing-in ceremony in 1985 as Environment Minister in the state of Hesse. His appointment as German Foreign Minister, the highest post held by a Green politician, lent Germany a distinctive presence on the international stage, one enhanced when the former anti-militarist turned humanitarian interventionist backed German troop participation in Kosovo and later questioned Donald Rumsfeld on the eve of the Iraq war. ("Excuse...
Louisa Solano has owned this Square landmark for over 31 years. Its mixture of new and used books features poetry in English, German, Israeli, French, and many other languages. The store also boasts free Toscaninni’s coffee from 4:30 to 6 p.m. on Saturdays...
...Mraz show has been great in terms of getting students excited and selling tickets,” said Amir E. Khoddami, the head of PK German, UVa’s student committee in charge of organizing large-scale concerts...
Glauber shares the prize with fellow American John L. Hall and German physicist Theodor W. Hänsch and will receive half of the $1.29 million prize...