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...commented later. Politicians raised in the social turmoil of the 1960s - they are known as "'68ers" after a dramatic year of mass protests - were moving on. "Young people must write the new chapter." For German voters of Fischer's age or older, 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...
...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 of his colleagues in the Bundestag. But "in their heads they saw themselves as from another culture." "There was a feeling that they were on the same wavelength as you, that we had something...
...endeavor. Every-where you look there are $1,200 handbags with exotic gewgaws like padlocks or python patches or chain-link straps. There's nothing wrong with success, of course, but people can stay excited about handbags for only so long. Every now and then, designers need to send shock waves through the fashion system, if only just to keep its heart racing. And in Paris the real designers did just that...
...Kashmir's hospitals were treating trauma that religion couldn't heal. Dr. Anwar Hussein said his SMHS hospital in Srinagar received some injured, but most of the 270 patients admitted, their nerves frayed by 16 long years of war, were suffering from "palpitations and shock." Other hospitals were unable to provide the same succor. Many had developed cracks, and patients and nurses alike were refusing to enter...
...dead still, in shock and horror. Tom Cruise jumped up on Oprah Winfrey’s neutral-toned couch and rhapsodized about Katie Holmes, shouting, “I’m in love! I’m in love!” Mocking Cruise at this point was like kicking a sleeping dog. Nevertheless, I turned to my friend. “He’s deranged and his career is over,” I said...