A photo dated July 25, 1996 of Bavarian State Governer Edmund Stoiber and his wife Karin visiting the opening of the 85th Richard Wagner Opera Festival in Bayreuth, southern Germany. A generation apart in age and poles apart in images, former journalist Doris Schroeder-Koepf, 39, wife of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, and housewife Karin Stoiber, 59, are making an unprecedented splash in their husbands' closelyfought battle for the chancellery in Sept. 22 elections in Germany. (AP Photo/Frank Boxler)