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DIED. MAX SCHMELING, 99, ex-world-heavyweight-boxing champion who became a reluctant symbol of Nazi might in the years leading up to World War II; in Hollenstedt, Germany. Schmeling became the first European to win the world crown when he beat Jack Sharkey on a foul in 1930. In 1936 he launched a famous rivalry when he knocked out U.S. challenger Joe Louis; his loss in a 1938 rematch at Yankee Stadium was hailed as a national triumph over Nazi Germany. But he was miscast by Hitler as an Aryan superhero; he refused to join the Nazi Party...
...five European leaders, 12 airline CEOs, scores of journalists and more than 5,000 invited guests gathered at Airbus headquarters in Toulouse, France, to celebrate the unveiling of the A380, which cost $12 billion to launch. The roll-out of the world's largest passenger plane is a powerful symbol of the coming of age of 35-year-old Airbus and underscores that the world's two major commercial-airplane makers--Airbus and Boeing--are at each other's throats as never before. Although the U.S. government and the European Union reached a temporary deal last month to avoid...
...mentioned anywhere on it. Each voter has one vote, which must be given to one of the 111 political parties and coalitions, listed in random order decided by lottery, on a ballot the size of a broad-sheet newspaper. Each party or coalition is identified by name, a graphic symbol, a number, and the name of the candidate at the top of its list. Most of these groupings are recent creations, largely unknown among Iraqis (although in some instances their top candidate may enjoy some name-recognition). Even some of the more established parties who worked against Saddam Hussein...
...Barry, who grew up in Memphis but moved to Washington in 1965 while doing work for the Civil Rights Movement, WAS a symbol for a dysfunctional capital city as mayor in the 1980?s and 90?s as he bloated the city?s payroll and ran up a massive debt. He became perhaps America?s most lampooned politician when he uttered the phrase ?bitch set me up? as officers arrested him for cocaine use during an FBI sting in 1990. Barry served six months in prison and recaptured his throne as mayor from...
...Yale-educated Williams was once known as the anti-Barry, the technocrat the city needed. Now Williams has became a symbol of a leadership many feel is out of touch with the concerns of residents. Enter the ?Mayor for Life,? who shows up on the streets and asks residents how their mothers are doing. ?We miss you, we?re so glad you're back,? 51-year-old Sunetta Vincent yells from her car a Safeway parking lot to Barry, who made a short trip there a few days before he was to start his city council job. People come...