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Merkel has spent decades being underestimated. There are still plenty of observers of the German political scene who regard her myriad achievements as flukes. "Merkel has never given a speech that stayed in the memory," wrote her most recent biographer. She can indeed seem reserved and self-effacing at times, but there should be little doubt that she has confidence and ambition aplenty. "You could certainly say that I've never underestimated myself," she says with a smile that in another context could only be described as kittenish. "There's nothing wrong with being ambitious." (See the Top 10 news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angela Merkel's Moment | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

...might seem odd that a woman whose climb to power was so arduous should contemplate giving away even a smidgen of it. But for a politician, Merkel keeps her ego remarkably in check. Indeed, to people who have never tamed their impulses for fear of drawing the attention of malign authorities nor tempered their dreams before an authoritarian state can trample them, her self-control can seem inhuman. On Nov. 9, 1989, as East German authorities gave up the struggle and opened the Berlin Wall, Merkel kept her regular appointment at a sauna. But the Chancellor's poise and self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angela Merkel's Moment | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

Harvard was never able to rebuild momentum as Minnesota would outshoot it by increasing margins—14-7 in the second period and 16-6 in the third...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Hockey Drops Two in Minnesota | 1/10/2010 | See Source »

...Declan, barely on speaking terms, are forced to have a big smooch in public, got an airing in The Proposal; and the local dance where the warring parties start to fall in love was in... The Morgans? Doesn't matter; they're all the same deficient movie. (See "The Never-Ending Role of Sandra Bullock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leap Year: The Worst Film of 2010 | 1/9/2010 | See Source »

Founder G. Oliver Koppell ’62 said he was enthusiastic about the progress that Let's Go has made over the past five decades. “I’m very excited that the guide has been published for 50 years," he said. "I never anticipated the growth the guide itself has undergone. I use the guides myself, and I’m very impressed...

Author: By Tara W. Merrigan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Let's Go Turns 50 | 1/9/2010 | See Source »

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