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...ambitious character named Vlastik Klein (whom some commentators speculate is modeled on Havel's political rival, current president Vaclav Klaus, although he differs from Klaus in important ways) embodies the materialistic, mobster-driven world of eastern Europe in the 1990s. Klein slyly ousts the Chancellor from his government villa, then buys it himself and converts it into a shopping mall complete with brothel. The language makes light of democratic institutions. "A good leader must be surrounded by a good network of think tanks," Rieger says at one point, using the English for 'network' and 'think tanks...
...Tempelhof's past has long since faded. As an underused commuter airport, it lost about $15 million last year. Shutting it down is a key part of Social Democratic Mayor Klaus Wowereit's plan to consolidate Berlin's three city airports into one by 2012. Proposals for repurposing the 890 acres (360 ha) in the heart of the capital range from establishing a German version of Central Park to turning it into grazing land for buffalo (really). Opponents gathered enough signatures in a citywide petition to trigger the referendum on the closure. Backed by prominent German businessmen, they...
...good thing is that we have absolutely the right strategy. It was developed under the leadership of Klaus Kleinfeld and his team. So I didn't have to change strategy at all. There's a strategic program called "Fit for 2010," which Klaus announced three or four weeks before he left. It's quite unusual that the outgoing CEO is announcing a program for the incoming one, but it's absolutely the right thing to do for the company...
...Kurdistan, while the only place in Iraq with the degree of stability where it is even conceivable for an American like Klaus to live and teach as he did, also provides an especially strong case for the dialogue on American responsibility in which Klaus engages. Kurdistan has been supportive of the American “liberation” to a greater degree than other parts of Iraq, but it is also indelibly marked with the history of a U.S. betrayal. In 1991, the United States encouraged a Kurdish uprising against Saddam, only to back off their support, leaving room...
...Klaus makes clear through the testimonies of his students the Kurdish fear of a repeat abandonment...