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Defeat in World War I had shattered the rigid certainties of Berlin’s “Prussianness” and left the town open to radical adventures in social and artistic expression almost unimaginable in the older cultural capitals of Vienna, London, and Paris.
Commenting on this weekend's general election defeat in New Zealand of National Party Prime Minister Jenny Shipley by Labor Party leader Helen Clark, the Sydney Morning Herald of Australia noted Monday that "the first country to give women the vote, in 1893, has ended the century with an election involving two women leading the major parties and with its first elected female prime minister."
That is the argument: If the enemy believes that you're not only willing but also certain to use enough force to defeat them, you won't have to start a fight to get your way.
Time credits Mexico's young voters--the "NAFTA generation"--for the ruling party's defeat in last week's elections.
The superficial spin: It's a defeat for Roe vs.