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...strongest hint that George W. Bush might actually have changed his thinking about Europe came not during his big speech in Brussels last week - the centerpiece of his four-day, three-country European tour - but in a much more low-key forum. Seated at a table in Mainz with a group of young German professionals, Bush tried to put the transatlantic alliance into perspective. After 9/11, he said, the U.S. and Europe developed very different views about global security - and he conceded that occasionally caused leaders to mistake each other's meaning. "Sometimes we talk past each other," said...
When President Bush meets German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in Mainz this week, it may not be a love fest. Washington was taken aback this month when a Schröder speech stated that NATO "is no longer the primary venue" for discussing transatlantic issues. TIME Berlin bureau chief Charles P. Wallace talked to Schröder about the uneasy alliance Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was just in Berlin, and there were many smiles. Relations between the U.S. and Germany seem to have improved. But there's still Iraq. Has anything really changed? You must not underestimate...
Another set of spring fellows, for the Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics, and Public Policy, were also announced on Monday and include Doug Ahlers of the marketing agency Modern Media, Sydney Morning Herald opinion editor Julia Baird, University of Mainz communications professor Hans Mathias Kepplinger, New York Times foreign correspondent David Rohde, McGill political science professor Richard Schultz, and political columnist Walter Shapiro...
...from foreign fighters in Iraq. But just how many of those insurgents are coming from Europe? A string of recent arrests suggests that a small but determined band of extremists is exporting young Muslim men in Europe to Iraq for jihad. Last week, German authorities arrested two men in Mainz: one an Iraqi who police say is an al-Qaeda-trained militant and recruiter of local Muslim youths for the insurgency, the other a Palestinian who is allegedly one of his recruits. In Paris, police arrested 11 people they say were involved in a recruitment cell with links to four...
...with the 27 years Mandela spent locked up under inhumane conditions. Stewart is going to prison because she lied about a transaction aimed at making her even richer. Mandela risked his life and was imprisoned because he fought against apartheid. To make any comparison is insulting. Nathalie Greifenstein Mainz, Germany Division Over Unions Re columnist Andrew Sullivan's essay on the Senate's defeat of the constitutional amendment banning gay marriage [July 26]: For anyone to claim that the weddings of same-sex couples somehow tarnish the sanctity of marriage is absolutely ridiculous. How sacred is marriage when two people...