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...years ago, as a consequence of traveling to North Korea, composer Isang Yun was forced to leave his homeland of South Korea and go into exile in Germany. More than 30 years later, cellist Bong Ihn Koh ’08 would also live in South Korea and Berlin, discovering Yun’s music along...
...said, ‘You can express the world’s pain through music,’ which I believe in,” says Koh. Though born in South Korea, Koh did not encounter the music of Yun until his high school years in Berlin. It was after watching a documentary on Yun that Koh decided to champion the music of his fellow countryman. “I was moved beyond description,” explains Koh. “I felt that his life was to be emulated in order to lead my life as a true...
...been dramatically successful in building both its economy and a technologically sophisticated workforce. Gumbel was struck by how much Eastern Europe has to teach the West: "When the head of the biggest bank in the country is only 35," says Gumbel, "there's something quite fascinating going on." Berlin bureau chief Andrew Purvis looked at a different kind of line - that separating faith and the state - and found it blurring in both Germany and Turkey. "Secularism," says Purvis, "is no longer taken for granted in either place." Paris correspondent Bruce Crumley studied a reverse migration - not Muslims moving to Europe...
...from nations such as Turkey and Algeria. European politicians are beginning to recognize, as the German Interior Minister said recently, that moderate Muslims are the best possible defense against religious extremism and its violent wing. "We need the cooperation of the Muslim organizations," Wolfgang Schäuble said in Berlin, "to fight against extremists from their own ranks...
...culture, heritage, tradition, which was therefore threatening to their future. I think we may be seeing an unarticulated return to an opening of that old tap." The young are the ones most easily inebriated. Europeans entering university this autumn have no personal memory of the joyous destruction of the Berlin Wall in 1989, let alone the preceding 40-year struggle against the Soviet system during which the survival of a free Europe depended upon an alliance with the U.S. - something their parents felt in their bones even if they disliked particular U.S. policies. The youngsters' professors might teach that...