The clearest winner is Angela Merkel.

Still, German Chancellor Angela Merkel can be proud of what was achieved.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel s constituents hate bailouts, because they know that it is they who will be doing the bailing.

The Praetorians become aware of Angela's knowledge of them and steal her identity, placing her new identity on the F.B.I.

For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different good news , which you did not accept, you put up with that well enough.

For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

Fortunately, Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy, and Gordon Brown understand the challenge, and at least some parts of the Bush government seem aware of the problem.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel s constituents hate bailouts, because they know that it is they who will be doing the bailing. They oppose anything that smacks of European political integration.

The previous year, German Chancellor Angela Merkel laid the plant s cornerstone herself, sending a strong signal of her seriousness about Germany s shift to clean, renewable energy.

Conventional wisdom claims that incumbent parties and politicians are punished by voters in times of economic distress. Throughout the campaign there was never any doubt about the position or tpopularity of Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Whole societies can also try to improve their happiness. British Prime Minister David Cameron introduced the measurement of happiness into national statistics, and more recently German Chancellor Angela Merkel launched a program to promote citizen s wellbeing.

At the end of February, for example, German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a spectacle insisting that no bigger financial firewall was needed to protect other eurozone countries from a disorderly Greek default.

Europe s international role is shrinking, with the old G 5 having evolved into the G 20. And, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel setting conditions for the eurozone, France s ambition to dominate European policy has been thwarted.

France's program is a major step toward a digital Europe, following German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Industrie 4.0 initiative and the United Kingdom's planned expansion of innovation centers to foster technological breakthroughs and pioneer solutions in energy, transport, health care, and education.

And German Chancellor Angela Merkel achieved a substantial diplomatic success. With charm and unassuming clear headedness, she wrought a compromise from the G8 countries that may help save the world from the most severe devastations caused by global warming.