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...government in which his party served as junior partners to the Social Democrats. "The red-green chapter which my generation wrote is irretrievably at an end," he commented later. Politicians raised in the social turmoil of the 1960s - they are known as "'68ers" after a dramatic year of mass protests - were moving on. "Young people must write the new chapter." For German voters of Fischer's age or older, these words may have come as a shock. For many, the pixie-faced politician embodies all the values they associate with youth: irreverence, passion, engagement with radical causes, an enduring whiff...
...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. And there, perhaps, is the point. So much of '60s dogma has become mainstream that young Europeans have nothing to protest about. Rebellion has been transformed into angst. The politics of passion has given way to quotidian worries about jobs, pay and pensions. (You can't despise capitalism and enjoy the consumerist heaven to which young Europeans aspire.) Grand schemes no longer engender devotion - or, if they...
...struggle of African Americans to come to terms with the legacy of slavery and the injustices of today. His work stood apart from, and above, nearly everything else in contemporary American theater. While others wrote spare, personal, ironic plays, Wilson's were big, verbose and passionate, brimming with social protest and epic poetry. Offstage, too, he was a maverick, opposing color-blind casting and advocating what some felt was a separatist black theater. Yet his work will endure, for everyone. --By Richard Zoglin
...interrupted a meeting of the Palestinian parliament in Gaza City last week to plead for more firepower. Some Palestinians fear that Gaza is descending into violent anarchy. "It's a Mafia situation," says Saeb al-Ajez, who resigned as chief of Palestinian police in February to protest the lawlessness. "Law is cast aside. Everyone wants to show his muscles...
...most rigged economy. The scandal created a major crisis for the government of businessman Silvio Berlusconi, itself no paragon of arm's-length transactions. Yet even Berlusconi finally found enough moral high ground to call on Fazio to resign his lifetime post after Finance Minister Domenico Siniscalco quit in protest when his calls for Fazio to step down had no effect. Siniscalco's replacement, Giulio Tremonti, who clashed with Fazio in an earlier stint as Finance Minister, tried to force him out by snubbing him at an International Monetary Fund meeting in Washington. Fazio still refused to budge...