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...your choices, Klaus Wowereit, mayor of Berlin. He stated that despite financial and economic constraints in our city, "You must show a sense of enjoyment in life." Most people forget about doing that when times are hard. Chipepo Chibesakunda Berlin I cannot understand Time's praise for a politician like Berlin's Wowereit. It was outrageous to feature a Clinton-like character whose sole contribution to Germany has been to paint a feel-good façade over the catastrophic financial woes besetting the economic engine of the European Union. No amount of fashion shows, film shoots and political correctness...
...DIED. SUNIL DUTT, 75, Bollywood actor turned politician who rose from poverty to star in 100 movies and later spent two decades in India's Parliament; in Bombay. One of India's best-loved actors, Dutt's breakthrough role came in 1957 as an idealistic young man who stands up to loan sharks in the Academy Award-nominated classic Mother India. Elected to Parliament five times starting in 1984 as a member of the Congress Party, he became India's Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs in 2004. On his death, chairperson of India's ruling coalition Sonia Gandhi praised...
...politician, Villaraigosa--who in this race assembled a coalition of black, white and Asian voters as well as Latinos--has long sought to reach beyond his own community. But as mayor of L.A., which is 47% Latino, he is destined to become an icon of the nationally emerging Latino political class. There are two Latino U.S. Senators and 22 Latino mayors in cities with more than 100,000 residents...
...like nearly any other career politician, Villaraigosa comes with baggage: he lost the 2001 mayoral election after it was revealed he had written the Clinton White House seeking a pardon for a convicted cocaine dealer, whose father had requested Villaraigosa's help. In this year's campaign he returned $47,000 in questionable donations from employees--and their relatives--of two Florida companies with direct and indirect interests in shops at Los Angeles International Airport...
...French, which is why the diet book French Women Don't Get Fat became a best seller. But when the book is released in France this fall, the reaction is likely to be more skeptical. Experts there are increasingly concerned about France's weight problem. A recent book by politician Jean-Marie Le Guen, Obesity: A New French Illness, notes that women in France, like women everywhere else, do get fat because they have less time to shop for fresh produce and are wolfing down more processed foods. Over the past decade, the obesity rate among French children has doubled...