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That would be one way to tell this story--but the truth is more complicated. At the Berlin Wall, guards fired live ammunition, and still an estimated 5,000 people managed to cross. And why shouldn't the fence be a complicated subject? Everything else about immigration and border security is complicated. The border has become the rice, or maybe the potatoes, of American politics; it goes with just about everything on the menu. It's an economic issue: Are illegal immigrants taking jobs from American citizens and driving down wages? It's a health-care issue: Do uninsured aliens...
...previous generation's fight for equality and respect. "This generation of women dares to declare that there are other things in life than either career or children," says Christel Eckhart, a sociologist and professor of gender studies at Kassel University. This is not entirely new. Since the late 1990s, Berlin's vibrant musical underground has featured women who undermine gender clichés through in-your-face sexual behavior. The Berlin-based Canadian musician Peaches and the all-woman band Chicks on Speed are known for explicit lyrics and the use of sexual paraphernalia on stage. But what...
...five-nation visit to Europe on June 9, such generosity will not be easily granted. Bush could discover an unexpected love for cricket, announce that he and Laura were planning to vacation on the Côte d'Azur, declare that his most fervent wish was to march in Berlin's Love Parade, and it would do him no good. For many Europeans, no matter how hard he tries, Bush will always be considered an ignorant, incurious cowboy. He was and is, they think, a man who connived in the use of torture, and who marched into Iraq without considering...
...have no doubt that I could have stuck it out longer with Anke in Berlin. I chose not to. Perseverance had become my default stance, even when there was no motivation to persevere, even when my determination to make the best of a difficult situation paradoxically meant that I didn’t try to improve the situation. What I understood that July day in the Kreuzberg, a week before I finally packed my things and moved out, was that I needed to step back and think about why I was sticking it out. What I found was that there...
...wishes he had more advice from professionals. “If you don’t have the practical, it’s just theory and you’re not improving the craft,” Pecci said. Pecci, who wrote a play that opened in Berlin this past winter and serves on Faust’s task force, said he hopes to see the University move toward a dramatic arts concentration. “I think it’s necessary if Harvard wants to produce the intellectual artists—that I so admire—that...