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...generational shift may be the fdp. A party that once relied on support from middle-aged voters increasingly appeals to the young. In the election, the fdp's youthful leadership stressed a simple campaign message that called for radical labor-market and tax reform. Even the Greens no longer stand in the way of market reforms, and can sound as fiscally responsible as Germany's postwar Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard. "Our concern was never the redistribution of wealth, but rather justice between the generations," says Renate Künast, outgoing Minister for Agriculture and Consumer Protection and Fischer's successor...
...ABORTION While president of the Texas Bar Association, Miers joined a debate in the early 1990s within the American Bar Association over whether the A.B.A. should take a stand on abortion. The group had gone from neutral to pro-choice and back again. Miers, joined by other Southern state bar associations, pushed the A.B.A. to remain neutral, but she never stated her underlying position on abortion...
...Crimson’s first turnover of the game. On Cornell’s first offensive play, quarterback Ryan Kuhn found Bryan Romney for a 21 score. After a converted extra point, the rout was on. “If you look at it from a momentum stand point there was a huge momentum shift in the first quarter,” Murphy said. O’Hagan would add two more interceptions before the half and Steven Williams lost both a fumbled kickoff and a fumbled punt for the Harvard’s other two turnovers. Harvard added...
...Kleinman said, “I’m not put out by it and I don’t think most of my colleagues are put out by it. We recognize that the speed at which we have increased the faculty is really astonishing when you stand away and look at it, and that it’s quite appropriate to have a period of slowdown...
...from a serious reform empowering individuals to just another entitlement program. He hasn’t seen a spending bill or an expansion of Federal powers that he didn’t like. Cravenly preferring submarine judicial nominees like Roberts and Miers in place of taking a strong conservative stand is simply confirmation of a longstanding pattern...