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Many a Sunday brunch has been ruined when I open the New York Times—eager to read an in-depth feature about this month’s offerings at the Museum of Modern Art—but find instead a rave review about an opening in Berlin. The college student who can barely afford an online Times Select subscription surely cannot hop a plane to Paris/London/Bilbao—why must Nicholas Ouroussoff tempt me so? Like the unnaturally blue bagels left beside the toaster, so too is the Times’ Arts section rejected when they insist...
What the hell is happening in Berlin? Us plebians have no idea, and boy are we worried! Thomas Koebner from Universitat Mainz, knows, however, and he’s telling all in his lecture “The Contemporary German Film Scene: What’s Going On?” Enrich your absicht, brag about it to your...
Educated Muslim scholars are right to deny Muhammad’s teachings were violent, but they should be more concerned about their brothers in faith than with folks in Rome, Paris, or Berlin. An Iranian hardliner like Ahmad Khatami opined that Benedict and Bush have “united in order to repeat the Crusades.” If those words do not seem extreme enough, Salih Kapusuz, from the governing Turkish party AKP expressed that the Pope “is going down in history in the same category as leaders such as Hitler and Mussolini...
...Nixon in China and Man on the Moon two in a wide and gentle extension of his arms with the expectation that the weight of history would bring their two hands together. It did. First Arafat reached out, then after what seemed like endless minutes, Rabin responded. Simple, shattering. Berlin Nov. 20, 1989 It was a combination of the fall of the Bastille and a New Year's Eve blowout, of revolution and celebration. At the stroke of midnight on Nov. 9, thousands who had gathered on both sides of the Wall let out a roar and started going through...
...German Catholicism is as tired as some people think," he said. The 79-year-old pontiff also made an explicit reference to his age, when asked why he was remaining in the southern region of Bavaria (where he will visit his birthplace in Marktl am Inn), foregoing visits to Berlin and other German cities. "I'm an old man," he said, "and I don't know how many more years the Lord will give...