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GERMANY Frequent Flyer Chancellor Gerhard Schröder got a gift from an unlikely quarter - the resignation of Gregor Gysi, leader of the Party for Democratic Socialism, the old East German communists. Gysi quit as both party leader and economics minister of Berlin over a scandal about his use of air miles - totted up on official business - for personal trips. The charismatic Gysi was the most prominent PDS figure and the one most popular among people in western Germany and young voters. His resignation could be a lifeline for Schr?der's re-election hopes. If the pds fails to gain...
...drew from his jacket a Coke bottle full of gasoline, and he doused the piano with one hand as the other hand banged out the song; and he struck a wooden match and he set the piano aflame, and his hands, like the hands of a madman, did not quit the blazing keys, but kept pounding, until all became unknown tongues and holiness and fire, and the kids went utterly, magically berserk with the frenzy of it all; and Jerry Lee stalked backstage, stinking of gasoline and wrath, and he said to Chuck Berry, real calm, as the sound...
BOTTOM LINES "Because they can earn more money on the dole, Ma'am." Barry Mitford, deputy page to Queen Elizabeth, explaining to her why five footmen quit their jobs...
...looking ahead," says its CEO, John Challenger, who foresees a worker shortage as the boomers who can afford to retire do so and the much smaller Generation X proves unable to fill the gap. So, whether they like it or not, the boomers who can't afford to quit working will give the economy just what it needs...
...QUIT FOR GOOD Now that you're in your 70s and your savings have grown to $701,000 after five years or $984,000 after 10 (at about 7% annually), you can scale back your work schedule or quit altogether and start spending the money you've saved over a lifetime...