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...once mighty manufacturing base crumble, with Cincinnati losing 17,000 manufacturing jobs over the past decade and Pittsburgh 22,600. But they diverge in their treatment of janitors and other low-wage service workers, and living-wage advocates say the results are telling. In Cincinnati neighborhoods like Over-the-Rhine and the West End, where Jones lives, poor wages coupled with high rates of drug use, street violence and truancy have created a cycle of interdependent problems. More than half the adult black males in the two neighborhoods are without full-time work. In the West End alone...
...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...
...welcome to Italy-on-the-Rhine. In the end, Germany will have a government. But it won't be a lasting one because whatever the combination, it will be a shotgun marriage based not on affinity, but desperation. Divorce will be lurking not that far down the road, and so will a new election...
Following the reactions of France's political class to the German electoral stalemate, the French plainly see their own malaise reflected back from across the Rhine - and that's a depressing prospect for the main parties of both the left and the right. The French conversation casts CDU leader Angela Merkel as a Teutonic stand-in for Nicolas Sarkozy, France's super-ambitious interior minister who heads the ruling conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), yet regularly issues pithy calls for a total "rupture" of the status quo politics of President Jacques Chirac and his current prime minister, Dominique...
...view of the man in white (with perfectly matching dove-white hair) was majestic from the press pool boat that chugged alongside the luxury ferry carrying the Pope along the Rhine as he stood on a pedestal near the bow and waved at crowds of pilgrims along the river bank. On the opposite shore, dozens of young faithful waded in up to their thighs, making the Rhine momentarily seem more like the Ganges. The coming days will also test the new Pope's mettle on the political and inter-religious fronts. On Friday, he will meet with German Jewish leaders...