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...took three weeks of hard bargaining and backroom deals to settle a woefully indecisive election, but Germany finally has a new Chancellor-designate: former physics instructor Angela Merkel, 51, who will be the first woman ever nominated for the post. Merkel will not be officially sworn in until late November, but although talks continue between her conservative Christian Democrat party and Gerhard Schroeder 's center-left Social Democrats on how to form a coalition government, Schroeder's party has now given up its claim to Germany's top post...
...important Foreign and Finance Ministries. Merkel's Christian Democrats will control six spots, including Economics, Defense and Interior. Schroeder's political future is uncertain - he will not serve in the new government and is widely expected to take a job in the private sector once the new government is sworn...
...because of their faults that the ideas of the '60s have lost some salience. It is because of their success. Rudi Dutschke, the German '60s student leader, coined the phrase "the long march through the institutions" to define his generation's ambitions, and by the time Fischer was sworn into office in 1998, such ambitions had been consummated beyond anything of which Dutschke could have dreamed. Everyone knows that some of the great social transformations with roots in the 1960s are with us forever. "The girls in St. Peter's Square who cheer the Pope have the pill in their...
Miller was no sooner sprung and sworn than a war erupted over why it took Miller and her lawyers so long to get a waiver from Libby in the first place. One of the principles over which Miller said she went to jail was her belief that the so-called blanket waivers of confidentiality signed by Libby and several other White House officials were coerced from them, leaving her no choice other than to continue protecting them. But Libby's lawyer Joseph Tate suggested that Libby had offered Miller a freely given waiver as much as a year...
...SWORN IN. JOHN ROBERTS, 50, as the 17th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; after a Senate confirmation vote of 78 to 22; making him the youngest Chief Justice since 1801; in Washington...