Barack Obama seems to be “at peace with himself,” mused a wistful Angela Merkel a few months after ... moved the young family to East Germany to take up a position as a Lutheran pastor.

Angela Merkel was elected leader of Germany in 2005 ... a town in then-communist East Germany, and the family moved there. When Merkel was three years old, her family moved again in East Germany.

Angela Merkel’s black limousine cruised to a stop here outside the Hotel Adlon, a storied building near the path of the wall that kept her locked in the East for the first 35 years of her life.

Angela Merkel’s black limousine cruised to a stop here outside the Hotel Adlon, a storied building near the path of the wall that kept her locked in the East for the first 35 years of her life.

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Naturally, there’s a German word that perfectly captures Angela Merkel’s dry, unemotive rhetorical style: vorsichtigkeit, which means, roughly, prudence. The German chancellor, who at age 63 ...