Word: schröder
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...Both sexes will find themselves catered to at Garment, tel: (49-40) 410 8403, where designers Kathrin M?ller and Ullinca Schr?der offer mod jumpsuits for women and razor-sharp trousers for men. At Hans Peter Reuker's eponymous boutique, tel: (49-40) 439 3256, body-hugging jackets and sweaters are the big menswear sellers, alongside flowing skirts and blouses for the ladies. Traditionalists can meanwhile satiate their appetite for British-style men's suits at Herr von Eden, tel: (49-40) 439 0057, or nip across to Recession by Marla, tel: (49-40) 1801 8970, which specializes in flapper fashions...
...polls on Sept. 18, the people's message was that nobody wins. It is tempting to compare Germany '05 with the U.S. presidential election in Florida five years ago, but wrong. In Florida, after much counting and recounting, somebody won?George W. Bush. Yet in Germany, Gerhard Schr?der, the Social Democrat, was trounced?and so was Angela Merkel, his Christian-Democratic challenger. The Chancellor and his junior partner, the Greens, lost their majority, but Frau Merkel and her allies, the Free Democrats (FDP), did not gain one. The Social Democrat-Green coalition was out, but the center-right...
...stability ?ber alles? It gets worse. There is no obvious way to cobble together a majority that can govern Germany for the next four years. Theoretically, the Social Democrat-Green coalition could recruit the FDP. But the party's chairman insists that he won't get into bed with Schr?der's Social Democrats and Joschka Fischer's Greens. On the right side of the political divide, Merkel could try to pry the Greens out of Schr?der's embrace. Arithmetically, this is a fetching idea; ideologically, it is not. How would she harness her own Conservatives, the free-market...
...Even if a lot of undecideds start leaning his way, Schr?der still has to contend with left-wing dissidents in the SPD. Their opposition to his economic reforms crippled his government, leading him to gamble on early elections in the first place. Germany's new left-wing alliance, the Linksb?ndnis, is exploiting unhappiness with reform to siphon off crucial support from the SPD. In response, Schr?der announced an increase in benefits for the long-term unemployed in eastern Germany and has agreed to a wealth tax on people earning over ?250,000 a year...
...only further weaken workers' rights without strengthening the economy. The Chancellor "is saying farewell in a comfortable sort of way," Gysi, an east German, says. "My impression is that he's relieved that it's coming to an end." Gysi's not alone in that view. Even some of Schr?der's most ardent supporters fear that the cheers resounding at his public appearances may be the sound of his last hurrahs...