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...underground Beirut cells after Lebanese judicial authorities formally charged them with involvement in last February's assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. Lebanese police arrested all four suspects - Jamil Sayyed, Raymond Azar, Ali Hajj and Mustafa Hamdan - as part of a United Nations?led investigation headed by German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis. If top Lebanese officials and their backers in Syria had hoped to evade Mehlis' probe, they've since been surprised by the tenacity of a man whom a former colleague compares to a "terrier that doesn't let go once it has sunk his teeth into something." Speaking...
...racquets as if that would made them invisible. Walking to Court 6 , I was just in time to watch Tobias Summerer implode in a winnable match against Ivan Ljubicic, the 18th seeds. Three reckless shots cost him the second set, while his lone fan tried to encourage him in German, although not too loudly. Ljubicic looked like he was mad at everyone; his serve was just vicious and its force drew occasional gasps from the crowd...
...record-high oil prices, most economists expect the world economy to grow by at least 4% this year. While that's down from last year's stellar 5% growth, it's more than double the euro zone's growth rate and is enabling companies such as Degussa and its German competitors to raise prices and offset more than j1 billion in extra raw-material costs. "High oil prices certainly still matter, but probably only half as much as they did 15 to 20 years ago," says Kenneth Rogoff, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), who now teaches...
...Schr?der's campaign team hope things will pick up in the final weeks of the campaign, too. Nearly 30% of German voters still say they are undecided, and a televised debate scheduled for Sunday between Merkel and Schr?der could help the telegenic Chancellor. Team Schr?der also intends to step up its attacks on Merkel, in part by focusing on the CDU's plans for tax and health-care reform, which it says will benefit more affluent Germans and disadvantage poorer ones. "We have to make it clear to voters how unjust the CDU's program is," says Andrea Nahles...
...Still, it may be too little, too late. Gregor Gysi, co-founder of the Linksb?ndnis, says the SPD platform will only further weaken workers' rights without strengthening the economy. The Chancellor "is saying farewell in a comfortable sort of way," Gysi, an east German, says. "My impression is that he's relieved that it's coming to an end." Gysi's not alone in that view. Even some of Schr?der's most ardent supporters fear that the cheers resounding at his public appearances may be the sound of his last hurrahs...