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...leftist parties to oppose reform. Since coming to power in 1998, Schröder's Social Democratic Party (SPD) has lost 125,000 members - 16% of the total - primarily because of the government's effort to cut back the welfare state. According to a recent Forsa poll published in Stern magazine, 64% of those surveyed think Schröder's reforms are wrong, and 76% find them "socially unjust." Now disgruntled SPD members and trade unionists are threatening to form an alternative leftist party. "There's no doubt at all - if there are no changes, there will...
Protesters set up a collection plate to magnify the financial hardships that KSG graduates face. As of yesterday afternoon, the most generous donor was Joseph J. Stern, a lecturer in public policy who dropped a $20 bill into the bucket...
...highly anticipated pi recitation contest. Despite a lineup that includes four of Harvard’s most arguably voracious mathematicians, no one counts on the stunning upset from first-time competitor and eleven-year-old New Hampshire resident Ryan Heden, who dominates the recitation competition with a stern, focused rendition of 387 digits of pi. “I just memorized [the digits],” Heden boasts matter-of-factly. However, memory alone can’t carry him through the pie-eating contest—the pint-sized champ respectfully abstains from the second challenge...
...That's how a local commentator fired from a $150-a-week job can suddenly make Variety, NBC news, the Drudge Report, Reuters, the BBC, even the crawl on CNN Headline News: "RADIO COMMENTATOR SANDRA TSING LOH FIRED FOR OBSCENITY."? My supporters range from The National Review to Howard Stern.? I don?t know whether my next invitation will be to the White House or to Larry Flynt?s.? And then there?s the passionate outpouring of hundreds of e-mails on my behalf. I feel like Howard Dean without the vision. . . or the scream...
...mine's a small, oft-told tale of inside baseball, office politics, double standards. . . but you know what?? My case also represents a troubling template for the future.?We know about Howard Stern, Bubba the Love Sponge and a Chicago DJ named "Mancow," raunch-shockmeisters all, awaiting FCC rulings. More insidious is a climate of fear so pervasive even public radio knitters are being axed.? While I won?t be sending KCRW any love letters soon, I understand their worries.? Now that the FCC has raised the fine per incident from $27,000 to $500,000, it?s one slip...