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Next week's space shuttle launch will make headlines because of the return to space of 77-year-old John H. Glenn Jr., but the crew will also do research for Harvard Lecturer on Astronomy John L. Kohl...
...HELMUT KOHL It will take a big man to fill his shoes, though not as big a man as it would to fill his shorts...
...global scene, the wobbly Boris Yeltsin still sits in the Kremlin in a crumbling Russia, while the enduring German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has been wobbled out of office in the most powerful country in Europe...
...test for Schroder's integrity or fitness for office, it may seem impressive that he could win by as wide a margin as he did--except for the fact that the new chancellor's necessary and sufficient selling point in Sunday's election was that he is not Helmut Kohl. Sixteen years is double the length of time any American president is allowed to serve (unless his predecessor resigns, of course) and was long enough to make people question whether or not democracy was still kicking in Germany...
Schroder's election was probably a good thing for Germany; Kohl had worn out his welcome. But one gets the feeling that out of Clinton, Blair, Schroder and Kohl, the phrase "to hell with history," could only have come from Kohl's mouth--which...