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...DIED. JOHANNES RAU, 75, former German President and premier of North Rhine-Westphalia, the country's industrial heartland; in Berlin. Rau, a Social Democrat, failed in a bid to unseat Chancellor Helmut Kohl in 1987 before embarking on his five-year presidential term in 1999. No stranger to controversy, Rau suggested in a farewell speech that negativity among German leaders had driven the country toward "collective depression...
...premier novelist of the American West, Larry McMurtry, 69, has won a Pulitzer Prize for Lonesome Dove and seen film adaptations of his work--including Hud, The Last Picture Show and Terms of Endearment--earn 26 Oscar nominations. But Brokeback Mountain was another writer's story, and, as McMurtry tells Josh Tyrangiel, he almost didn't read...
...project, leaving the funding and the center's details to the evangelicals, of whom Robertson is the best-known. The arrangement is unusual, says Zev Chafets, who is now writing a book about the relationship between Jews, evangelicals and Israel and is a former spokesman for the late premier Menachem Begin. "In the past," he notes, "Israel has been extremely reluctant to turn prime land over to Christian organizations...
...itself, critics worried about the likelihood of big price rises in the future. And the pivotal role in the deal given to a Swiss-based intermediary company partly owned by unnamed Ukrainian investors increased concerns for some. "What has happened is a major scam," Yuliya Tymoshenko, the former Ukraine Premier who is expected to do well in parliamentary elections in March, told Time. The Russian bullying tactic may have lasted only a few days, but its effects are still coming down the pipeline...
...will continue to do whatever is good for Hong Kong's prosperity and stability." WEN JIABAO, Chinese Premier, speaking to Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang during Tsang's first visit to the capital after his controversial, Beijing-backed proposals for political reform were blocked by democratic legislators last month...