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Gandhi was assassinated by a Hindu militant from an organization called Mahasabha (the Great Society). The Marshall Plan began. The state of Israel was born. In the summer of the Berlin airlift, Lyndon Johnson clattered across Texas in history's first campaign-by-helicopter--Lyndon swooping down ex machina to meet and greet the astonished farmers...
Downfall is a German film--epic in scale, painstaking in detail, superbly acted--that recounts the last days of Adolf Hitler and his circle of associate monsters in the spring of 1945. The locale is ruined Berlin, encircled by the implacably advancing Russians as its population descends into anarchy. Belowstairs, Hitler (toweringly played by Bruno Ganz) spirals deeper into unreality. Hunched over his maps, he orders imaginary armies to attack, while his toadies, in their spiffy uniforms, look nervously at one another. Who's going to risk his rage by telling him the truth...
...David Ignatius of the Washington Post. "I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, 8 million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world. The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen...
...currently lives in New Haven, and de la Durantaye commutes most weekends to be with her. The trek, he claims, is a relatively easy one when compared to their earlier long-distance relationship between Boston and Berlin...
...currently lives in New Haven, and de la Durantaye commutes most weekends to be with her. The trek, he claims, is a relatively easy one when compared to their earlier long-distance relationship between Boston and Berlin...