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...find a way to hang onto some power - last week, he continued to discuss his prospects with his party and with the Christian Democrat leadership under Angela Merkel - but he looks unlikely to dominate German politics again. Other contemporaries within the government are considering their futures. "The torch is being passed," Michael Naumann, a former Cabinet Minister under Schröder and a '68er himself, told Time. "But to whom?" Germany's younger leaders are distancing themselves in style and substance from the generation they plan to replace. The issues that animated those born during or soon after...
...still more space yarns in him after this. He may try science fiction--a historically high-stakes genre in which filmmakers either succeed brilliantly or flame out spectacularly. But in an era of shrunken space programs peddling small-bore dreams, there's something to be said for keeping the torch burning...
...trains and they have the metro." You might think that in light of Athens' very mixed record, other cities would look at the Greek experience and shy away. You would think wrong. On July 6, in Singapore, the i.o.c. will announce which city will next take up the Olympic torch and host the 2012 Summer Games. The competition has been the most intense for years, with five of the world's most famous cities - London, Madrid, Moscow, New York City and Paris - vying for the honor. Each city has launched a massive, multimillion-dollar marketing effort to get the Games...
DIED. LARRY COLLINS, 75, bestselling author, with Dominique Lapierre, of a series of meticulously researched historical page-turners, most famously 1964's Is Paris Burning?, which recounted Hitler's plan to torch the French capital if the Allies recaptured it; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Frejus, France...
...passion for hegemony lives on in Damascus. Under the shrewd, ruthless, brutally dictatorial guidance of President Hafez Assad, 53, Syria has been making a bid for the past decade to grasp the torch of Arab unity and emerge as the pre-eminent power in the Middle East. By keeping its 62,000 troops in Lebanon ... Syria has become the key player in that fractured country's future ... Syrians consider Lebanon to be part of 'Greater Syria,' a vague concept of territorial grandeur that thrives more in memory than in reality. Indeed, the two countries share more than a millennium...