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...just four weeks ago. At 37, he's the youngest economy minister in Germany's post-war history and already he's being hailed as one of the country's most popular politicians. With his slicked-back hair, and boyish good looks, Zu Guttenberg exudes the one thing which most German politicians lack: charisma. Unlike his predecessor Michael Glos, a 64 year-old political veteran who shied away from the cameras, Zu Guttenberg has gone on a major media offensive...
After Ginsburg described former Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist rehearsing to swear her in, Greenhouse said, “I think rehearsal’s a good thing when you’re swearing somebody in, right...
Despite the need for the projected revenue, opponents say legalizing pot would only add to social woes. "The last thing we need is yet another mind-altering substance to be legalized," says John Lovell, lobbyist for the California Peace Officers' Association. "We have enough problems with alcohol and abuse of pharmaceutical products. Do we really need to add yet another mind-altering substance to the array?" Lovell says the easy availability of the drug would lead to a surge in its use, much as happened when alcohol was allowed to be sold in venues other than liquor stores in some...
...thing nostalgic Democrats forget about Social Security is that it did not come in the first year of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency or even in the second. The major initiatives of the New Deal passed only after F.D.R. had convinced Americans that he had his priorities straight. His immediate attention to issues like the run on banks and sky-high unemployment gave him a congressional landslide in 1934 that ratified his 1932 victory. That's when he grew strong enough to pass his broader agenda. The best way not to "waste a good crisis" is to put the stress...
...OZAWA: I was, I was surprised, I was very surprised. My secretary was arrested by the prosecutors and the reason for the arrest was entry errors in the political fundraising records. Similar things have happened many times over not only with politicians, but also with ministers as well as former prime ministers. When this has happened before, the only thing that was often required was to make corrections (to entry errors). But in this case, all of a sudden my secretary was arrested. So I was very surprised by the whole thing and I was also very puzzled about...