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...said. Chancellor Gerhard Schröder will be pleased - he engineered the poll by deliberately losing a confidence vote in parliament on July 1 - but at least two parliamentary deputies plan to challenge Köhler's decision in the Constitutional Court. If the election does take place, conventional wisdom is that Schröder will lose. A poll by Election Research Group confirmed that the new leftist alliance - Linkspartei.pds, a coalition of disgruntled left-wingers and eastern German reformed communists - is polling 12% nationally. It's also the strongest party in the east, at 34%. The conservative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Balance Of Power | 7/24/2005 | See Source »

...good stuff?" he asks. Upstairs, several teens are sitting at the kitchen table listening to a girl who looks to be about 15 tell how she got the narcotic Oxycontin from the medicine cabinet at home. "It was left over," she says, "from my sister's wisdom-teeth surgery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trading for a High | 7/24/2005 | See Source »

...There was a BLOHARD sitting next to him who was in private debate over the wisdom of ordering a beer ?even in this frigid weather.? He ordered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of the BLOHARDS | 7/22/2005 | See Source »

...moment that I simultaneously hugged my grandmothers that I decided from now forth to let my facial hair grow freely, because wisdom and beards are proportionate in the follicles of knowledge...

Author: By Gabriel A. Rocha, | Title: Dear Harvard, I Miss You So Much | 7/22/2005 | See Source »

...Kelly's career still flourishing? The long-held wisdom is that Americans will forgive any act that's followed by a sincere public apology, but since his brief 1994 marriage to then 15-year-old protégé Aaliyah (her furious parents eventually obtained an annulment), Kelly's lawyers have vetoed any show of contrition. Instead, he has pursued a strategy that is one of the most confounding--and contagious--developments in public life: aggressive shamelessness. It begins with silence in the face of outrage, then blooms into anger (usually at the media), followed by the defiant continuation of the very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viewpoint: The Best Defense ... | 7/17/2005 | See Source »

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