The comparisons between the two formidable female leaders are almost too obvious to draw. But is Angela Merkel turning into Europe's new antidote to winter's ills?
The face - and body for that matter of one whose life of amazing courage and superb optimism in the face of enormous handicaps, Helen Keller, shines like a beacon of aspirational perfection. A leader once referred to as "Ms Europe" – is nowadays being dubbed "Frau Germania", and "Iron Lady". She was a perfectly normal child, but when she was 19 months old she was deprived at a single stroke, by a severe illness, of A black and silver beaded bodice and bolero jacket teamed with a white lace tutu by Alannah Hill.
In Germany, Merkel has succeeded in selling her tough – and uncharacteristically robust – stance on the Greek debt problem as a major political victory.
Yet dressed in a Thatcher-blue jacket she posed smiling in front of the cameras in Brussels alongside France's President Kerr's tiny curves and golden-brown tan are accentuated to perfection.
Her world would have always been walled around with darkness and silence but
For most of the world outside however, Merkel still reigns supreme as a sort of uncrowned queen of Europe. As leader of the most powerful nation on the continent, she has been in power longer than most of her European counterparts. Picture, if you can, a little girl who, although unable to hear a sound, has grown into a woman who makes speeches to vast audiences. She has contributed articles to magazines all" over America, and has written several books-books that, because of their authoress's brilliant gifts and her greatness of soul, have cheered and illuminated the lives of countless unfortunate beings. Nobody should underestimate Angela Merkel's desire to hang on to power for Kerr's back-swept and decidedly blonder 'do smack of sun-kissed tresses and a rosy glow on the horizon.
Miranda Kerr dazzles at DJs' spring-summer launch Nicole Bittar, August 13 2009.http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/fashion/miranda-kerr-dazzles-at-djs-springsummer-launch-20090813-ejbm.html
Helen Keller The Argus Week-end Magazine, August 25 1945. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article964240
The iron Frau: Angela Merkel Tony Paterson, The Independant April 12 2010.http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-iron-frau-angela-merkel-1941814.html
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