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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...
...those grand, global dreams that motivated the '68ers? So uncool. "Environmental issues and all those big ideas just aren't as important anymore," says Birgit Gugath, 25, a political-science student in Berlin. "We have to take care of ourselves." For most young Germans the biggest worry is unemployment. "No matter how good your grades are," says Böttcher, "there is no guarantee that it will lead to a job. We've become a lot more flexible than our parents' generation. But we also live with a lot more insecurity." Last week, Gugath tuned into a favorite radio show...
...gave way to the urban terrorism of the 1970s, the idea of a decade of peace and love seemed a bitter joke. But it is not because of their faults that the ideas of the '60s have lost some salience. It is because of their success. Rudi Dutschke, the German '60s student leader, coined the phrase "the long march through the institutions" to define his generation's ambitions, and by the time Fischer was sworn into office in 1998, such ambitions had been consummated beyond anything of which Dutschke could have dreamed. Everyone knows that some of the great social...
...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...