Word: berge
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...game remained on a Friday night, it would not have been the first instance of a Crimson football game conflicting with Yom Kippur. In 2004, the game at Brown fell on the holiday. The lone healthy Jewish player on the Crimson at the time, defensive tackle Michael L. Berg ’07, ultimately played in the game...
...Soon enough, the starving-artist types began to get paying work in the new Germany - film roles, book deals, selling paintings banned by the communist authorities. The streets of Prenzlauer Berg pulsated night after night to the rhythm of dancing bodies, flowing cash and a consensual belief there was nowhere else in the world better to be at that precise moment...
Hipness is not dead in Berlin; it simply grew up and started having babies. Just take a look at Prenzlauer Berg, an island of cool that may right now have the highest birth rate in all of Germany. The neighborhood was once was a refuge for East Berlin's communist-era bohemians communing beneath the radar of the dreaded Stasi secret police. Then, after the Berlin Wall fell, hipsters from the other side poured in to the district, opening cafes and night clubs on every corner...
...young hipsters all came here and then they just grew up and starting having babies," says Jana von Oheimb-Rosta, a slim 34-year-old with jet black hair, as she lurches to grab her four-year-old before he bolts. She came to Prenzlauer Berg as a teenager before the Wall fell, and lived in an occupied house. "Now, the entire yuppie world is moving in here," she says...
...hipness of Prenzlauer Berg certainly isn't dead; it just sometimes smells kind of funny - which is why so many of the neighborhood's establishments now offer diaper-changing stations in their bathrooms...