Word: berlin
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...whom the most important was Adolf Hitler. Hitler's ideological war on the Soviet Union devastated Europe. After Lenin's death, his followers in Europe, Asia and Africa created other Bolshevik regimes that propagated regional wars, fostered terrorism and destroyed economies. Not until 1989, with the fall of the Berlin Wall, was Lenin's malign influence definitively reversed. Its aftereffects will persist into the 3rd millennium. --John Keegan, historian...
Imagine moving Capitol Hill and the White House from Washington, D.C., to downtown Manhattan, and you?d have some idea of how German legislators must be feeling. Germany?s government opened for business in Berlin Monday, for the first time since Russian troops raised their flag on the Reichstag in 1945. And, like the press corps assigned to cover it, Germany?s political class is reveling in the decision to move the capital from the sleepy provincial city of Bonn. "I?ve yet to talk to anybody who?s unhappy about the move," says TIME Berlin (formerly Bonn) bureau chief...
...magnet that drew the capital back to Berlin wasn?t the city?s storied nightlife. Berlin had been Germany?s historic capital, and the establishment of the West German government in Bonn was an expression of postwar trauma (and an acknowledgment of the difficulties of operating in isolated West Berlin). "Chancellor Konrad Adenauer made clear after the war that the reason they chose Bonn was precisely because they were looking for a city without a history," says Wallace. The return to Berlin, its reviled wall now shattered into millions of sobering souvenirs, is a sign then that after the horrors...
...effort into Russia, is one of the executives suspended in the money-laundering flap. Her husband? Konstantin Kagalovsky, who in the early '90s was Russia?s representative to ?- guess what? - the IMF. It gets better. The other suspended executive, Lucy Edwards, is married to a shady businessman named Peter Berlin, who authorities have linked, through his company Benex Worldwide, to reputed Russian mobster/arms dealer Semion Mogilevitch. All this makes the Bank of New York look either complicit or stupid - and the IMF look just plain stupid, at least in the eyes of its congressional critics, who have been carping about...
Which means neutral Netizens ought to get used to living on both sides of the Berlin Wall at once: using MSN Messenger to talk to hotmailers, and IM for their AOL comrades. Until the wall comes down, Gates and Case are unlikely to win any popularity contests. Perhaps it's time they set up their own private buddy list...