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...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 of rebellion. Fischer half-jokingly told Die Tageszeitung, a leftist newspaper: "I was one of the last live rock 'n' rollers of German politics. Now there's an up-and-coming generation in every party who mime to pre-recorded tracks." In any case, the elections on Sept. 18 showed Germans are ready for different mood music. The Social Democrats lost four percentage points, torpedoing any chance...
...front of the camera and on the stump helped his party recoup a seven-point deficit in opinion polls prior to last month's election. There's a sense in Berlin that the fun people are clearing their desks. The German Defense Minister, Peter Struck, sang in a rock band; Schröder and Fischer were renowned for their fondness for Cuban cigars and a comfortable lifestyle. "Governing is fun!" Schröder quipped at the end of his first term, sending shock waves though Germany's conservative establishment. "They all wore suits and ties to the office," Lindner said...
...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 do, do so for a brief moment, preferably one (like this year's Live 8 concerts) that involves rock music. It is this dismissal of the big idea, surely, that lies behind young voters' rejection of the E.U. constitution. For their parents, the E.U., with its promise of ever closer union between nations that had recently been at war, was a glorious cause. But for those under...
...Along with a new “indie” look, Hanson is taking their music to the next level; it now possesses more of a classic rock character than the essence of popular music that has kept them so successful all along...
With English professor Elisa New sporting Larry Summers’s rock around campus, it looks like our foot-in-mouth University President will have a partner to help him temper his sharp and unruly tongue. Because it’s my job to worry about stuff like this, I started wondering: if Ron Howard did an “A Beautiful Mind”-style biopic on their relationship, who would play the loose-chinned economist and his poetry-reading lady love...