Word: mayoral
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...says Berlin's mayor, Klaus Wowereit, as an entourage of transvestites in Bavarian drag saunter past in the theater courtyard. "I'm glad it's playing in Berlin now. A musical can't hurt anyone. After all, it's a parody of Hitler...
...ultramodern water-treatment plants, a technology center on the site of a former Soviet army base just outside town, and - most needed of all - thousands of solid new jobs in a rebuilt industrial sector that has become home to U.S. firms such as computer maker Dell and Dow Chemical. Mayor Szabados waves to a corner of her office. Leaning up against the wall there are two dozen new shovels, several big trowels and an oversized watering can - all souvenirs from groundbreaking ceremonies around Halle since she took office in 1990, first as deputy mayor and, since 2007, as mayor. "Everything...
Given the enormous bill for reunification, such failings have inevitably given rise to a debate in Germany about the policy of propping up the east. In 2004, an informal commission headed by Klaus von Dohnanyi, a former mayor of Hamburg, concluded harshly that eastern Germany was still far from being able to stand on its own two feet. One of the commission's key findings was that industrial policy should have been better coordinated and the money invested in a few promising centers, rather than being showered as if from a watering can across the economic landscape. But the fact...
...somewhat protected because its firms don't export as much as their west German opposite numbers. An unmistakable streak of eastern stoicism helps, too. "I notice that when I'm in the west, the fear of this economic crisis is much greater than in the east," says Halle's Mayor Dagmar Szabados. "We've been steeled by crisis here." That may be true; but as the state of her town proves, being steeled by a crisis is not the same as rebounding from a slump into prosperity. The rest of the world: take note...
...weekend. "We want equal rights. We don't want to be discriminated against," the director of Gayrussia.ru said a couple of days before the parade. "Many Eurovision fans are gay, and they will be watching what happens to us." Wary of the government of Moscow's openly homophobic mayor Yuri Luzhkov (a similar March two years ago had somehow ended in violence as neo-Nazis and religious groups attacked demonstrators), Alexeyev used guerrilla tactics and, at the last minute, moved the parade from Moscow's center, farther north to Sparrow Hills. (Read about the results of the 2009 Eurovision finals...