Word: schroeder
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...Ostalgia" industry leaves people like Klaus Schroeder speechless. "People really seem to think the GDR was a big joke, which results in such crudities as a Stasi pub," says the professor of political science at Berlin's Free University. "What's gonna be next, a Gestapo Inn? It's absurd...
...Steinmeier, known as the "Graue Effizienz" (a play on the term "Grey Eminence"), as the party's candidate for Chancellor - a post Beck had until recently been eyeing himself. In another unexpected move, the party's former chairman, Franz Muentefering, like Steinmeier a close aide to former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, was put forward (though not yet formally voted in) to replace Beck as party chairman...
...Peter Schöppner, head of the polling firm Emnid. "Instead I think we are witnessing the calm before the storm." Steinmeier is "hated by the far left of his party," says Schöppner, because he advocated unpopular economic reforms, especially tighter rules on unemployment compensation, under Chancellor Schroeder. Moreover, he will have a hard time challenging Merkel because his specialty has been foreign policy - "an area where Merkel is already stealing all the thunder...
...Steinmeier, a jurist with wide experience in foreign policy and in the chancellery who served as Schroeder's chief of staff, is considered a steady hand on the tiller in turbulent times. Only Merkel scores higher in public opinion polls. But Steinmeier has never run for political office and analysts question whether his current popularity is not more the result of him being foreign minister, a post that traditionally receives high ratings from the public, than his electability. "Who is Frank Walter Steinmeier?" asked Die Welt, a newspaper, in a comment Monday. "He is not unlike Angela Merkel, in that...
...with Kim Basinger, who also made a comeback at Venice in The Burning Plain), the satanic thriller Angel Heart (De Niro was the Devil), as a gangster in Elephant Man makeup in Johnny Handsome and a lowlife genius in a film of Charles Bukowski's Barfly directed by Barbet Schroeder (who also had a film at Venice; the Lido was one big Rourke reunion). The guy was sexy, dangerous, adventurous in his choice of roles. The actor's cliche "totally committed to the process" could have been coined for Rourke...