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...built in Europe since, traveling by train should be easy, safe and environmentally clean. The reality can be a rude shock: the 5.7 billion annual passengers on Europe's railroads encounter trains that are dirty or late when they run at all. A recent German poll found that Deutsche Bahn (DB) has by far the worst image of any company in the nation. In the U.K., almost 60% of passengers say trains don't provide value for money - and service got so bad on some of the main commuter lines into London that the government last month sacked the company...
Members of Digitas, however, doubt the benefits of falling under the umbrella of HCS, according to Bahn. "It would be a grave mistake," he said...
David Marmor, as the stellar editor of the Liberal Press, and Ishir Bahn, as his trusty sidekick, the chair of the homeowners' council, have sophisticated acting styles, but crude parts. They shout and wave their arms a lot in an effective rendition of two almost slapstick characters. Amory Downes as Mrs. Stockmann and Michelle Sullivan as her daughter perform competently...
...scene could have been an outtake from The Spy Who Came In from the Cold or Funeral in Berlin: a young East German defector huddling with his wife and their small child in the gloom of a nearly deserted S-Bahn platform in East Berlin, waiting nervously through an early evening snow squall for the elevated train that will carry them to safety in West Berlin. The defector was Werner Stiller, 31, a lieutenant in East Germany's dreaded secret police and espionage agency. Miller had been working as a spy for West Germany. Now, following orders from Bonn...
...West Berliners, this was evidence enough of the fate that waited for them if the Reds ever managed to take over the entire city. And the intention was clearly there. When West Berliners boycotted the East German-owned S-bahn (elevated railway), which runs partly through West Berlin, East German Railway Boss Otto Arndt hinted darkly of interruptions when supplies were shipped to West Berlin...