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Berlin is a city suffused with history, a lot of it sad. So it's gratifying to find a part of the metropolis that, though ruined by war and its aftermath, is now flourishing. In the last few years, Berlin's Mitte district, for three decades the cold war frontier between east and west, has been reborn as one of the city's trendiest shopping and dining areas. It's also where the politically powerful in Germany can be found conducting the country's business over a milchkaffee or a Wiener schnitzel...
...demonstrates that college campuses, as microcosms of society, are by no means immune to ethnically motivated bias incidents. This was never more evident than after Sept. 11, when students of Arab American and South Asian American descent all across the country became targets of a violent backlash in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks...
...that there was insufficient evidence to show that the Clintons committed any crimes. The five-volume, 2,200-page report details the investigative odyssey that started with a real estate deal in the Ozarks and led (with a boost from Monica Lewinsky) to Bill Clinton's impeachment. In the aftermath of this $70 million saga, some have fared better than others...
Yasser Arafat says he's ready to seek an end to the fighting. In the aftermath of Wednesday's shocking terror attack in Israel, the Palestinian leader said he was prepared to implement a cease-fire plan "without conditions." Israelis are skeptical - the offer was made in remarks to journalists, and not as an official proposal to the Israeli government. And Arafat has made such pronouncements before, most notably after last year's suicide bombing in a Tel Aviv disco...
...regional alignment rules worked to Harvard’s advantage. In the aftermath of Sept. 11, the NCAA Championships and Competition Cabinet issued a directive to avoid air travel, if at all possible, for NCAA Regional tournaments...