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...German Democratic Republic, as East Germany was properly known, was an accident triggered by a journalist's spontaneous question has now been challenged. In an interview with the German regional public broadcaster MDR Riccardo Ehrmann, 79, who last year was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit by the German government, revealed that a ruling party official had called him before the press conference urging him to ask about the new travel...
...Communication and a former White House speech writer.“I’m not riding on my parents, though,” Kaplan says, “I’m trying very hard to do this on my own accord and out of my own merit.” Kaplan said she mentioned her idea for a book on L.A. insider life to the HarperCollins editor at that party. According to Kaplan, the editor was encouraging and she secured a meeting to pitch her book in the form of a 20-page preview. The day after...
...hope that the politics surrounding national standards has become a little less contentious. A growing coalition of reformers - from civil rights activist Al Sharpton to Georgia Republican governor Sonny Perdue - believe that some form of common standards is necessary to achieve a wide array of other education reforms, including merit pay for good teachers and the expansion of the role of public charter schools. (See pictures of inside a public boarding school...
...wait. Hold the presses. One of those political stunts might actually have merit. “Merit” as in public policy merit, but merit also because it presents a political opportunity for Obama. There’s an idea being circulated by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum, and even gracing the airwaves of “El Rushbo,” that could be the first truly bipartisan achievement of the Obama era: a payroll-tax holiday. Some proponents suggest a year or two (more like...
...Yosano is able to be flexible because - unusually for a leading Japanese politician - he has no factional ties. He gets appointments the Confucian way: through merit. And his political contacts are not confined to the LDP; he plays go with opposition party president Ichiro Ozawa. As his plans become more front and center, his star seems to be on the rise. Yosano took second place to Aso in last September's elections for a new LDP leader. "Given the problems that Japan faces, people feel that there's a solid quality to Yosano, a trustworthiness that makes people feel confident...