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...Cabinet will be the country's brightest politician, Joschka Fischer, 57, Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor since 1998. The street-fighting iconoclast who settled happily into a role at the peak of the German establishment, and whose international fame and personal popularity always seemed out of kilter with the modest size of his Green party, has retired from frontline politics. He left the Bundestag, the seat of parliament in central Berlin, with a wave at waiting reporters and a typically informal salutation: "Ciao, ragazzi." That exit marked the end not only of Fischer's ministerial career but of the government...
Even Mercedes' German rivals, while eager to exploit the sales opportunity, are rooting for a modest recovery. "In the end it's also a German brand," says Ralph Weyler, the board member responsible for sales and marketing at Audi. "Generally, it prompts the discussion, Are the Japanese better than the Germans? We're all thrown into the same...
...This modest growth is an abrupt shift from the first three years of Kirby’s tenure, when faculty growth averaged just over 21 hires per year...
...year when the University is drawing more lower-income students than ever before—such students total a still-modest 18 percent of freshmen—it may be time to ask ourselves whether Harvard has really shed its fabled old boy ways, as it claims it has, to welcome more than wealth into its ivy-clad arms...
...thing, the company's size will make it difficult for Icahn, whom Forbes estimates is worth $8.5 billion, to get enough of a stake to force his will on management. And many investors note that Parsons is already looking at a stock buyback (although a more modest $5 billion) and plans to split off 16% of the cable division. What's more, Parsons has the Time Warner board in his corner. He has presented spin-off scenarios and, according to a Time Warner insider, "the board has concluded there's no magic bullet...