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Friday, June 08, 2007

Cock in a Basket


'Chancellor Angela Merkel's chemistry professor husband, Joachim Sauer... has not exactly won the affection of the German media since his wife became Chancellor. On one of his first public appearances with Ms Merkel at the Bayreuth music festival, which celebrates Wagner, he was nicknamed the "Phantom of the Opera" for shying away from cameras and giving only monosyllabic responses to his neighbours at dinner. ...
He is further handicapped by a surname which literally means "sour" and has fuelled rumours that he is a humourless academic. ...[T]he German media described him, somewhat bafflingly yesterday, as a "cock in a basket"... [Hahn im Korb]'




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