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Exit polls in Germany show conservative challenger Angela Merkel with a thin lead after Sunday's general elections, but not enough to form a center-right coalition. Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder refuses to concede defeat and says he can still lead the next government. It was one of the hardest-fought elections in German history, and the early indications are that Europe's biggest and richest nation may be heading for political stalemate rather than a clear mandate for change. The first exit polls give Ms. Merkel's Christian Democrats between 35 and 36 percent of the vote and Mr. Schroeder's Social Democrats just under 34...

NO NANNIES NEED APPLY by Robert Wolf We are not a democracy. As has often been said, democracy is two wolves and a sheep arguing about what is for dinner. We are (or were meant to be) a Federal Republic, a collaboration of autonomous states headed by a deliberately shackled Federal government. As citizen of this Federal republic we should be permitted to manage our own risk and to pursue our own destiny; free of the meddling of those who think fast food is bad for us, that motorcyclists must wear helmets, or that we should split up into multi-cultural...