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During the reelection campaign for Bill Clinton, his wife Hilary Clinton ended up in hot water when she quipped she "could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas" rather than work for a living. Today, Angela Merkel was elected chancelor of Germany by its new-formed parliament, the first woman in the history of Germany to have achieved such a feat. According to a Radio Eins news report, her parents were attending the election, with her mother handing out home-made cookies. Is that Germany's future? A cookie republic? Nice and proper, probably. Hopefully effective as well.

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