Riddle: what can we still want, to 35 years, when one is from one of the oldest and richest families in the country, which is has ten names of illustrious ancestors, his wife is a descendant Direct Bismarck, we had two young children, that one is beautiful, intelligent, already member, we are preparing to be a minister and that dream is chancellor? Response that is self-evident in Germany: a degree of doktor issued by a university.
These two letters "Dr." an officer of civil status is respectfully append your last name on your identification and which will finally make you an aristocrat of the Republic. The cream of the crop may even show it on his business card a "Dr. Dr." (for the authors of two theses) or a "Professor.
Dr." or "Professor. Dr. Dr." for academics. The title of doktor is a distinction closely related to the country's history. A prestigious title carried by the Germans as different as Martin Luther in the fifteenth century, the communist activist Rosa Luxemburg, in the early twentieth century, or Joseph Goebbels a few years later.
An honor of which can currently claim 2% of German assets but 50% of large employers and, until recent days, twelve of the sixteen ministers of the Government of Dr. Merkel. For the sesame, Baron Karl-Theodor MariaNikolaus JohannJacob PhilippFranz Sylvester Joseph von und zu Guttenberg was ready for anything.
Sacrifice his family life, neglecting his constituents, deserting the Bundestag. In short, flying in an already overloaded schedule a few precious hours to establish a scholarly comparison of the U.S. Constitution and the European constitutional treaty, the subject of his thesis of 475 pages containing not less than 1200 footnotes page.
A remarkable work which teachers from the University of Bayreuth have not hesitated to give the best indication in 2006, if the desired summa cum laude. Or so we thought. Until a lawyer in Bremen, Andreas Fischer-Lescano, intrigued by the uneven quality of the style and arguments used, check on Google that the current defense minister Angela Merkel, has not simply recycle some of the speeches at the beginning of his career.
Legal practice course but a bit flippant. What was his surprise to discover that it was not his own writings, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg was reproduced, but in several cases, those of others, but no mention stated. Revealed by the Süddeutsche Zeitung on February 16, the case is unprecedented proportions.
Soon, users have discovered that the "Baron von Googleberg" as we call him now did not copy a few passages but two-thirds of its argument. Since then, this king of com'capable to take his beautiful wife, TV star, spend some time with German soldiers in Afghanistan and to install a television studio, expands the guards.
First he denies the facts. Then, winning a power that no one gave it, he gave of himself to his prestigious title. Finally, he apologized to Parliament while claiming not to have "knowingly misled" the thesis committee. The case should not stop there. University of Bayreuth has already fallen "KT" from its title but, in a burst of pride, decided to continue the investigation to analyze the extent of the deception.
All text of the minister are scrutinized. Especially, the opposition on suspicion of having used a negro, assess the extent he used for his thesis on small hands of the Bundestag. All this should lead Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg to resign. Logically. Did he not lied when he claimed to embody honesty in politics? He has not harmed the reputation of a university, unfortunate accident, had received shortly before the funds of a corporation whose family zu Guttenberg was one of the major shareholders? Do not throw he not discredit both the political elite as the German? He who did not hesitate in recent months, to separate two very senior military officers which weighed a mere suspicion, without waiting for the results of investigations launched against them, should it not be so strict with him yourself? But "KT" seems untouchable.
Monday, February 21, in turmoil, activists of the CDU have made it a triumph. If the elite is shocked, opinion, she argues that minister who in 2009 was the best elected member of the country and remains the most popular minister of the government. Sign of this shift: the website of Süddeutsche Zeitung, influential center-left daily, 84% of Internet users say they want the minister's resignation but 87% of the 261,223 readers of Bild, who took the trouble to phone numbers available to them by the popular daily, consider instead that it should remain.
Because "a good minister" who, in their eyes, is probably no more guilty of turpitude than other politicians. Logic efficacy against the logic of honor, the debate is just beginning. lemaitre @ bbc. en Frederick Lemaitre Article published in the edition of 01.03.11 
These two letters "Dr." an officer of civil status is respectfully append your last name on your identification and which will finally make you an aristocrat of the Republic. The cream of the crop may even show it on his business card a "Dr. Dr." (for the authors of two theses) or a "Professor.
Dr." or "Professor. Dr. Dr." for academics. The title of doktor is a distinction closely related to the country's history. A prestigious title carried by the Germans as different as Martin Luther in the fifteenth century, the communist activist Rosa Luxemburg, in the early twentieth century, or Joseph Goebbels a few years later.
An honor of which can currently claim 2% of German assets but 50% of large employers and, until recent days, twelve of the sixteen ministers of the Government of Dr. Merkel. For the sesame, Baron Karl-Theodor MariaNikolaus JohannJacob PhilippFranz Sylvester Joseph von und zu Guttenberg was ready for anything.
Sacrifice his family life, neglecting his constituents, deserting the Bundestag. In short, flying in an already overloaded schedule a few precious hours to establish a scholarly comparison of the U.S. Constitution and the European constitutional treaty, the subject of his thesis of 475 pages containing not less than 1200 footnotes page.
A remarkable work which teachers from the University of Bayreuth have not hesitated to give the best indication in 2006, if the desired summa cum laude. Or so we thought. Until a lawyer in Bremen, Andreas Fischer-Lescano, intrigued by the uneven quality of the style and arguments used, check on Google that the current defense minister Angela Merkel, has not simply recycle some of the speeches at the beginning of his career.
Legal practice course but a bit flippant. What was his surprise to discover that it was not his own writings, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg was reproduced, but in several cases, those of others, but no mention stated. Revealed by the Süddeutsche Zeitung on February 16, the case is unprecedented proportions.
Soon, users have discovered that the "Baron von Googleberg" as we call him now did not copy a few passages but two-thirds of its argument. Since then, this king of com'capable to take his beautiful wife, TV star, spend some time with German soldiers in Afghanistan and to install a television studio, expands the guards.
First he denies the facts. Then, winning a power that no one gave it, he gave of himself to his prestigious title. Finally, he apologized to Parliament while claiming not to have "knowingly misled" the thesis committee. The case should not stop there. University of Bayreuth has already fallen "KT" from its title but, in a burst of pride, decided to continue the investigation to analyze the extent of the deception.
All text of the minister are scrutinized. Especially, the opposition on suspicion of having used a negro, assess the extent he used for his thesis on small hands of the Bundestag. All this should lead Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg to resign. Logically. Did he not lied when he claimed to embody honesty in politics? He has not harmed the reputation of a university, unfortunate accident, had received shortly before the funds of a corporation whose family zu Guttenberg was one of the major shareholders? Do not throw he not discredit both the political elite as the German? He who did not hesitate in recent months, to separate two very senior military officers which weighed a mere suspicion, without waiting for the results of investigations launched against them, should it not be so strict with him yourself? But "KT" seems untouchable.
Monday, February 21, in turmoil, activists of the CDU have made it a triumph. If the elite is shocked, opinion, she argues that minister who in 2009 was the best elected member of the country and remains the most popular minister of the government. Sign of this shift: the website of Süddeutsche Zeitung, influential center-left daily, 84% of Internet users say they want the minister's resignation but 87% of the 261,223 readers of Bild, who took the trouble to phone numbers available to them by the popular daily, consider instead that it should remain.
Because "a good minister" who, in their eyes, is probably no more guilty of turpitude than other politicians. Logic efficacy against the logic of honor, the debate is just beginning. lemaitre @ bbc. en Frederick Lemaitre Article published in the edition of 01.03.11
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