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121.	Focus on Youth (2002) Since 1952, the Shell Oil Company has published regular scientific studies on the changing values of young people in Germany. The young people interviewed for this Shell Youth Study (Number 14 from....
122.	A Neoliberal Commentator Demands the Unfettering of German Universities (August 5/12, 2002) Detlef Müller-Böling, the director of the Center for Higher Education Development in Gütersloh, advocates freeing German universities from their bureaucratic fetters in order to make them more intellectually....
123.	Federal President Johannes Rau Calls for a Globalization Policy (May 13, 2002) Taking fears of globalization seriously, Federal President Johannes Rau, a moderate Social Democrat, carefully attempts to analyze the advantages and disadvantages....
124.	Chancellor Democracy under Gerhard Schröder (July 26, 2002) According to political scientist Karl-Rudolf Korte, under Gerhard Schröder, the Federal Republic’s “chancellor democracy” [Kanzlerdemokratie] was becoming....
125.	The German Council of Economic Experts Urges Further Reforms (November 13, 2002) In order to boost the momentum for neoliberal reform, the German Council of Economic Experts proposed a twenty-point program for “employment and growth” in its annual report for 2002-03. It advocated....
126.	German Students Perform Poorly on the OECD’s PISA Test (2002) Gymnasium principal Dieter Smolka reports on German students’ disappointing performance on the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) test in 2000. Then he outlines his....
127.	Pacifism in the Federal Republic (January 2003) By the time the U.S. was preparing to invade Iraq, pacifism was no longer primarily a concern of the Left, as it had been in the 1980s. Rather, pacifism, as a basic stance, enjoyed the support of....
128.	Old and New Europe (February 2003) U.S. Defense Minister Donald Rumsfeld’s distinction between “old Europe” (above all France and Germany) and “new Europe” (Southern, Central, and Eastern Europe)....
129.	Minister for Education and Research Edelgard Bulmahn Recommends All-Day Schooling (February 13, 2003) In response to the PISA results, Minister of Education and Research Edelgard Bulmahn (SPD) proposed a 4 billion Euro federal program to facilitate the expansion of all-day schooling.
130.	Chancellor Gerhard Schröder Introduces "Agenda 2010" (March 14, 2003) In a dramatic presentation of his government’s program, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder called for courage to reshape the welfare state through structural reforms....
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