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...Schröder's ease in front of the camera and on the stump helped his party recoup a seven-point deficit in opinion polls prior to last month's election. There's a sense in Berlin that the fun people are clearing their desks. The German Defense Minister, Peter Struck, sang in a rock band; Schröder and Fischer were renowned for their fondness for Cuban cigars and a comfortable lifestyle. "Governing is fun!" Schröder quipped at the end of his first term, sending shock waves though Germany's conservative establishment. "They all wore suits...
...generation's ambitions, and by the time Fischer was sworn into office in 1998, such ambitions had been consummated beyond anything of which Dutschke could have dreamed. Everyone knows that some of the great social transformations with roots in the 1960s are with us forever. "The girls in St. Peter's Square who cheer the Pope have the pill in their pockets," Karl Cardinal Lehmann, head of the German Bishop's Conference, told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung earlier this year. The Greens may have had a disappointing result in the German election, but environmentalism remains a core European value...
...country whose problems in many ways reflect those of its signature car company. The task will fall to new DaimlerChrysler CEO Dieter Zetsche, 52, who has already worked miracles in overhauling the once disastrous Chrysler division. "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king," says Peter Schmidt, a British-based auto-industry consultant. "Zetsche is a brilliant choice, but it will be very arduous to get Mercedes back to where...
...China," says Ueberroth, who in her 11 years with the league has negotiated television and sponsorship deals in Mexico City, Moscow and New Delhi. (When not selling hoops in faraway places, she visits them, having scuba-dived in Fiji and Belize.) Sports run in Ueberroth's blood: her father Peter organized the 1984 Olympics, ran Major League Baseball from 1984 to 1989 and is now the chairman of the U.S. Olympic Committee. --By Sean Gregory...
Former Secretary of Commerce Peter G. Peterson advocated a mandatory level of personal saving and a reduction in Social Security benefits in his Malcolm Wiener Lecture yesterday at the Kennedy School of Government...