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...seen as a celebrity but as a piece in the puzzle of how we communicate the jeopardy of all those lives--and the opportunity of helping if we can just agree on something. It was nice not to be asked how the Achtung! Baby sessions went in Berlin...
...continent's dificult passage from the devastation of World War II to the still uncompleted project of the European Community. Judt briskly reviews every part of this complex story, from the Marshall Plan, the Cold War and the upheavals of 1968 to the aftershocks from the fall of the Berlin Wall, offering useful and sometimes surprisng judgments on all of them. His book now becomes the definitive account of Europe's rise from the ashes and its take off into an uncertain future...
...press conference with Rice in Berlin, Germany's new Chancellor, Angela Merkel, said the Bush Administration has admitted that U.S. agents "erroneously" abducted Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen of Lebanese descent who they believed had terrorist ties. Rice would only say that when mistakes are made, Washington would "rectify them." El-Masri, who filed a suit in U.S. federal court last week against former CIA Director George Tenet and three private airline companies, claims that agents seized him on the Serbian-Macedonian border in 2003 and held him in Afghanistan for five months...
...succeed Chirac, have kept France introverted. In Germany, Merkel is trying to walk a narrow line between the need for economic reform and the maintenance of a fragile coalition with her own Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats - both of which are undergoing painful internal shakedowns. Hosting Chirac in Berlin last week, she aligned Germany with France in criticizing Britain's budget proposals. But Chirac knows that she may not feel bound to knuckle under to France in defending agricultural subsidies the way her predecessor did. HAPLESS BARROSO Even before former Portuguese Prime Minister José Manuel Barroso became Commission...
...they might in any other departmental class. But they also hear about Germany’s Halloween celebrations, beer festivals, and regional dynamics.That is because the professor of this nine-person class is Henning Schmidgen, who is visiting Harvard for a year from the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, Germany.“Professor Schmidgen is definitely one of the most unique professors I’ve ever had,” says Alfredo A. Ok ’06, one of three undergraduates in the class. “Since a lot of the history of science is based...