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...major snag. Or did they? On Monday, Social Democratic Party (spd) leader Franz Müntefering stepped down over differences with the left wing of his own team. Then Edmund Stoiber, the silver-haired leader of the Christian Democratic Union's (cdu) sister party, the Christian Social Union, also quit, claiming he could not work with anyone but his close friend Müntefering. Angela Merkel's attempt to stitch together a government as Germany's first female Chancellor was thrown into doubt. are you politicians crazy? ran a headline in Bild, a conservative tabloid. "Jobs at long last," joked...
...Driven Out of Montana Now that fuel prices are going up, i can appreciate Walter Kirn's difficulty in taking the long drives that any trip in Montana seems to entail [Oct. 17]. I recently had to quit - almost before I started - a job in Kalispell, the closest town of any size (pop. 14,000) to my home. That's about 50 miles [80 km] away. The daily round trip on $3-per-gal. gas meant that after the associated costs of commuting I'd be earning only $2 an hour. That spurred my decision to move somewhere that...
...ambush outside Kandahar, an American officer directed his men not to shoot wildly at the shadows flitting through the chaos because "Dammit! It's civilians mixed with enemy." The U.S. is trying to fight a gentleman's war. There will be civilian casualties in any war. We have to quit trying to pick and choose when we raise our weapons. Either get out now or fight. Denise Fitzgerald Shelby Township, Michigan...
...Third World medicine, interviewing beleaguered health officials, visiting families crowded into thatched huts and shadowing Farmer as he treated AIDS, TB and malaria patients with food and life-saving drugs. "This is how medicine is supposed to work," says Elmer-DeWitt. "After three days, I was ready to quit my day job and apply to medical school...
...ambush outside Kandahar, an American officer directed his men not to shoot wildly at the shadows flitting through the chaos because "Dammit! It's civilians mixed with enemy." The U.S. is trying to fight a gentleman's war. There will be civilian casualties in any war. We have to quit trying to pick and choose when we raise our weapons. Either get out now or fight. Denise Fitzgerald Shelby Township, Michigan...