No-Frills Candidate Aims For Germany's Top Spot (washingtonpost.com)

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washingtonpost.com - OSNABRUECK, Germany -- The woman who wants to rule Germany stepped to a microphone on the packed main square of this industrial city and reminded the crowd of the nation's woes. The jobless rate is the highest since the end of World War II, she noted bleakly, economic growth is the weakest in Europe, the national mood gripped by doubt.

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