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...free market during the country's Sept. 27 national elections. A victory by Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union puts the party on track to form a new center-right coalition with the smaller Free Democratic Party, whose leader, Guido Westerwelle, is likely to be tapped as Vice Chancellor. Merkel's previous coalition partner, the left-leaning Social Democratic Party, suffered its worst election loss since World War II. Merkel and Westerwelle are expected to cut taxes, promote business and strengthen Germany's political partnership with...
...mining-related scandal. Luis Diego Marin, regional coordinator for the Costa Rica-based conservation group Preserve Planet, calls Arias a "hypocrite," insisting that behind Costa Rica's green facade today is "tremendous disorder." Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, a political rival and environment minister under Arias' predecessor, Abel Pacheco, and vice president of the Washington, D.C.-based Conservation International, says Arias "has been neither serious nor coherent on the issue of the environment." (See TIME's special report "Heroes of the Environment...
Others, including those close to him, wonder privately if fighting climate change is less a conviction for Arias than a vehicle back to the international accolades he enjoyed a quarter century ago. They point out that his conservation kick was greatly influenced by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore's Academy Award-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth., and wonder if Arias was motivated more by the message of the film, or the worldwide praise Gore received as a result of championing the cause...
...news article "Gingrich Touts ‘Tripartisanship’" incorrectly referred to Alee Lockman '10 as a former secretary of the Harvard Republican Club. In fact, she was a vice president there...
...nonexistent weapons of mass destruction before the war in Iraq - in other words, for standing up to Bush. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change probably deserved the Nobel in 2007 for spreading the word about global warming, but the committee wouldn't have dreamed of adding former Democratic Vice President (and almost President) Al Gore if it hadn't wanted to contrast his advocacy with Bush's climate denial. (See George W. Bush's best YouTube moments...