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Merkel's main headache is Westerwelle, whose various job titles seem to have given him carte blanche to be the government's unofficial troublemaker. Finding himself holding the balance of power following 11 years in opposition, the ambitious politician is enjoying his first taste of power. Even though his main job is Foreign Minister, Westerwelle has flexed his muscles on domestic issues from tax reform to health care to nuclear power. Gero Neugebauer, a political scientist at the Free University in Berlin says Westerwelle's inexperience in government makes him a loose cannon. "Westerwelle's criticism gives the impression that...
...discovered, is to research and write at breakneck pace, and the result is content that only just squeaks through the system. Working as fast as possible, I could make close to $60 an hour at Demand, a nice improvement on what I'm paid for my day job, but I'd be producing articles that were thinly sourced and poorly written. (See 10 ways Twitter will change American business...
...does have standards, however. Every article requires at least one source (no Wikipedia allowed), and would-be writers are required to submit a résumé and writing samples, and the company says the approval rate is less than 50%. I'm a journalism-school graduate with a full-time job at a magazine (the one you're reading right now); I got in, but a friend with less journalism experience...
...commission, South Africa would have gone up in flames. It was not a perfect instrument, but it did a heck of a good job. It lanced the boil. A festering soul was opened and cleansed, and balm was poured...
Governor Mwafi acknowledges only vaguely that Sinai's cross-border security issues are heavily intertwined with its internal troubles. "My previous job helped me a lot here," he says, "because I know the culture and the mentality of the Bedouin and the people here and [the] needs for special treatment." He adds, "All of the government is concerned now with how to develop North Sinai," and says the area is awaiting a visit from President Hosni Mubarak, who has held power for 28 years and is currently recovering from major surgery in a German hospital even as Egypt frets about...