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...plunged into recession, governments have pledged to spend as much as $5 trillion of taxpayers' money to ward off a prolonged slump. For the most part, these massive programs are based on little more than theory: nobody advocating them has experienced a downturn as dramatic as this one. But Dagmar Szabados has seen such spending before - she knows what it's like to be on the receiving end of a gigantic fiscal infusion. Szabados, a chemist by training, is the mayor of Halle, a mid-sized town in the middle of what used to be the German Democratic Republic...
...protected because its firms don't export as much as their west German opposite numbers. An unmistakable streak of eastern stoicism helps, too. "I notice that when I'm in the west, the fear of this economic crisis is much greater than in the east," says Halle's Mayor Dagmar Szabados. "We've been steeled by crisis here." That may be true; but as the state of her town proves, being steeled by a crisis is not the same as rebounding from a slump into prosperity. The rest of the world: take note...
Malik shone in drag as Dagmar, a stock “witch next door” character who brews a bubbling cauldron and cackles frequently. As Malik sang about his character’s “notion for a potion,” three giggling spirits floated around him, playing up the classic witch’s den scene repeatedly and effectively...
MARRIED. VACLAV HAVEL, 60, playwright President of the Czech Republic, and DAGMAR VESKRNOVA, mid-40s, a prominent Czech actress; at a municipal hall, in Prague. It is the second marriage for both. Havel is recovering from the removal of a malignant tumor and half his right lung...
...that she'll raise vat, it may not have been a good idea." At the Dresden rally, though, Merkel's brand of plain talking worked for some. "I voted for the Greens in 2002, but I'm going to vote for the cdu this time," says Dagmar Schaarschmidt, 46 and unemployed. "Merkel is being honest and that's why I trust her." So far, Schröder's strategy for winning a third term seems to be: stick with what worked. In 2002, he squeaked through to re-election by playing up his opposition to the war in Iraq...