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...damage herself - through lackluster performances in interviews and by her confusion, on two separate occasions, of the accounting concepts of "net" and "gross." But some of the most serious gaffes have been made by her party colleagues, offending voters in the east whose support for the Linksbündnis could prove decisive. Earlier this month Stoiber caused an uproar when he complained about the influence of east German voters. Merkel, an easterner herself, handled the furore deftly, praising east Germans for their huge effort to rebuild their economy and society after the fall of the Wall. Ruth Kranz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "Angie" Rocks The Vote | 8/21/2005 | See Source »

...should be courting votes rather than controversy in the east. Some 26% of east German voters intend to cast their ballots for the Linksbündnis, according to Forsa. The appeal, Linksbündnis co-founder and former spd Finance Minister Oskar Lafontaine told Time, is that the party "offers an alternative. Wage- and salary-earners, pensioners, young people looking for education urgently need somebody who represents them in parliament." Merkel knows she needs to reach these groups, too. She never misses a chance to remind voters of Schröder's 1998 election pledge that if he couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "Angie" Rocks The Vote | 8/21/2005 | See Source »

LOGOS: Then accuse him of objectification. If he doesn't go away, ask him what he did before he got religion, before his ultimate faith-concern, or better still, Selbstverständnis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: RIGHT YOU ARE IF YOU SAY YOU ARE - OBSCURELY | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

LOGOS: Don't let it happen again. Vorverständnis is one of my favorites. It means presupposition. Wissenschaft is far better than saying simply discipline or science, and anxiety sounds much deeper if you say Angst. If you grow weary of German, there is always Greek-almost everyone has seen Never on Sunday-with such splendid specimens as kerygma (message of the Scriptures) and agape (divine love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: RIGHT YOU ARE IF YOU SAY YOU ARE - OBSCURELY | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

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