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...Democrats (CDU) and the incumbent Socialist Party (SPD), has achieved the majority required to lead the country, even in coalition with their respective traditional partners, the Liberals for the CDU and the Greens for the SPD. And yet this was an election with a seemingly clear ideological divide: liberal reform to shake Germany out of its economic rut or business as usual with the governing...
...sluggish growth for at least five years, when the difficulties of integrating East Germany caught up with the Federal Republic. At present unemployment has reached nearly 12 percent of the workforce, or five million people. The CDU offered up a new candidate with a project of painful-but-healthy reform. Germany could either give the much-hyped Angela Merkel a mandate, or it would reconfirm its distrust of Anglo-Saxon-style liberalism and continue to adhere to the continental social-democratic model, permitting the incumbent chancellor Gerhard Schrder to sally on. In the event, such a choice proved too much...
Nothing in Zheng Yichun's upbringing foreshadowed his landing in a political prison. His English-speaking father interrogated captured American G.I.s during the Korean War, and as a teenager two decades later, Zheng led his middle school's Communist Youth League. Only when the reform era hit China in the 1980s did the aspiring poet have what his family calls an "awakening." China's leaders were corrupt and tyrannical, he said, and he would fight them with words. Yet despite the provocative title of his self-published 2002 collection of poems, The Era of Brainwashing, his work went mostly unnoticed...
...part of the reform package passed by the council last year, the treasurer will now chair the treasury board, made up of the treasurer, a vice-treasurer, and treasurers of the three committees that comprise...
...undeniable progress in human rights and democracy ought to be rewarded with formal talks on full membership. Washington was cheering in the background, arguing that the acceptance of an overwhelmingly Muslim country, long a bulwark of NATO, into the EU would show other predominately Muslim states the benefits of reform and democracy...