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...years. And if more people like Wolfgang make the switch, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's fragile spd?Green coalition could fall apart at next year's national vote. "People here are just frustrated and want to see new faces," says Wolfgang, sniffing a pinch of red tobacco. "My grandpa used to say that the spd gave us prosperity after the war. That may be true, but they can't do it anymore." In the past, North Rhine-Westphalia, in which Duisburg is located, has been an spd stronghold, where no-nonsense blue-collar workers like Teusch rebuilt the city...
...hugging his granddaughter. There were only a few references to the security background that, Adler believed, established Sharon as the best man to face off against the Palestinian leader at the time, Yasser Arafat. Suddenly the "unelectable" hard-line general had turned into a campaigner the Israeli media dubbed Grandpa Sharon. He won easily...
...would converse, ask how we were doing in school, but there would be a point when he would get launched, and we would try to launch him. There were two different house-burning stories. I worked in a little bit of one in the book, the one where Great Grandpa came back from the Colorado gold flelds, is the legend, and the gold dust was all lost in the blaze...
...hospital ward in Landstuhl, Germany, 1st Infantry Division Specialist Shane Salter sobs for his dead sergeant, whose hand he clutched in a morgue in Iraq just five days earlier. At 22, Salter, from Walla Walla, Washington, is so young that he called 29-year-old Sergeant Kyle Childress "Grandpa." "He always took care of me," says Salter, who lost two fingers when his platoon burst into a bombmaker's house near Samarra one night and was met with a torrent of machine-gun fire. As Childress fell, Salter emptied his M-4 rifle into the dark. The return fire raked...
...Shutters on the Beach hotel in Santa Monica, Calif., McShane, 62, has the happy air of a man who has got away with something. The British character actor just won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a TV drama, and though in real life he's a grandpa and, for 20 years now, a teetotaler, he betrays a bit of his character's roguish confidence. As soon as he landed the role, he says, he bought a house just down the coast. "I had a feeling it would go on for some time," he says...