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...unions and companies like Siemens and DaimlerChrysler are making to keep jobs in Germany, higher wages are not in sight. So I hope for an even bigger export boom that might create new jobs, because before that happens, only the tourists can increase consumption in Germany. Jessica Neumann Berlin Exonerating Blair In your story on the conclusions of Lord Butler's report - that Tony Blair took Britain to war on a false premise but should nonetheless be absolved from blame [July 26] - you included a photo of an antiwar protester's banner that read BLAIR LIED, THOUSANDS DIED. The slogan...
Kerry's career as a politician began and almost ended in Lowell, a blue-collar city about an hour's drive northwest of Boston. Kerry moved to Lowell in 1972, three years after he returned to the U.S. from Vietnam. Back then Lowell "looked like Berlin after World War II," former mayor Robert Kennedy says. The mills were boarded up, and houses were burned out. In the overwhelmingly Italian and Irish community, people knew their neighbors and their neighbors' cousins twice removed. And nobody knew Kerry, who had parachuted into Lowell because it was part of the state's Fifth...
...plan." But their target is not Israel. The suit charges that officials in Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority (P.A.) have profited by importing cement using dubious import licenses and selling it to Israeli contractors building the wall. Try to imagine officials in the Kennedy Administration selling cement to East Berlin construction firms back in 1961 and you'll get an idea of why ordinary Palestinians are so furious about the allegations. Hassan Khreisheh, deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, tells Time he handed a report on the cement deals to Arafat's attorney general and has recommended prosecutions. According...
...Kingly Books of Glasgow, Scotland, collects a group of short stories, the best of which, "The Chemist and the Capuchin," tells the slightly nutty but heartfelt story of a scientist who suffers a chronic injury and rediscovers his lost faith. Another tale imagines David Bowie's diary from his Berlin days. Created with no apparent pretense, Bagnall's work has a warm and funny eccentricity...
...family moved again, to Berlin, where as the legal adviser to the U.S. mission, Richard got a longed-for chance to be part of history being made. And John got his first taste of another world. Traveling through communist East Germany, "I actually noticed a very perceptible difference--the darkness, the lack of automobiles, the dark clothes. It just seemed bleak. And I sensed the foreboding unwelcomeness to it." One day he went so far as to ride his bike through Checkpoint Charlie and into East Berlin to look around and visit Hitler's bunker. When Richard realized where...