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...Frayn?s new play is the story of that spy, Gunther Guillaume, who made himself indispensible to Brandt and became one of his three secretaries, vetting all the Chancellor?s papers after sending copies to his bosses in East Berlin. Conleth Hill (who amused Broadway audiences as one of the two actors playing dozens of roles in ?Stones in My Pockets? three years back) incarnates Guillaume as a piggy-faced toady who can?t help admiring his victim. ?He listens, that?s his trick,? he says of Brandt. The Chancellor, impersonated by Roger Allam (the original Javert in the musical...
...umbrella, an allusion to the car's simple canvas roof) last spring when he was stopped by throngs of tourists while driving his own gray 2CV in Paris. "It just clicked," he remembers. He experienced his car's pulling power again in the fall while driving from Paris to Berlin. "It's a French icon like the beret or the baguette," he says. Dargnies offers three options: the Essential Tour, a review of the city's must-see monuments (1 hr. 30 min., $90); the three-hour Magic Tour ($155), which covers a wider selection of Parisian attractions...
...conditions change, a good thinker can objectively re-evaluate the potential outcome for the long run instead of doggedly sticking to old prejudices. My hope is that many voters will take Kerry as an example and have the intelligence and courage to change their preference to him. Alan Benson Berlin Kerry says he will respond appropriately to any attack by terrorists. Bush, however, has prevented terrorist attacks by going after the terrorists. Responding or preventing? The choice is easy. Peter Norsk Nivaa, Denmark...
...West Bank and Gaza. Moreover, if the wall is completed as planned, long sections of it will run through the heartlands of the West Bank, isolating Palestinian villages, separating residents from their farms and fertile lands, and even dividing Palestinian families. Praising this wall is like praising the Berlin Wall. Azzam El-Hait Cairo
...save Europe, but their presence today doesn't fit with current doctrine." The larger issue is whether the recall, set to begin in 2006, will degrade a transatlantic alliance already damaged by Iraq. "It's not a strategic divorce," says Jeff Gedmin, director of the Aspen Institute in Berlin. "I think both sides need each other in different ways, they have different priorities and objectives." But others - including retired Marine General Anthony Zinni, head of the U.S. Central Command from 1997 to 2000 - see a political message behind the recall, announced one week before the 60th anniversary...