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Leather-clad punks and squatters fighting the police, leftist bohemians and amateur philosophers, Turkish immigrants creating a world of their own - Kreuzberg lures those seeking chaos and adventure. Before the Wall fell, in 1989, all of Berlin had a special edge to it, a sense that life here was dangerous and vivid and played for high stakes; Kreuzberg hasn't quite lost that feeling. Busloads of tourists no longer move through the area, gawking at the anarchists and punks; the district is more prosperous these days, because the Wall's fall put it in the center of Berlin. But Kreuzberg...
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...many cases, praising President George Bush. When a group of Iraqis took a sledgehammer to the giant plinth beneath a Saddam statue opposite the international press headquarters at the Palestine Hotel, journalists and TV anchors everywhere couldn't resist making the comparison with the tearing down of the Berlin Wall in 1989. While the statue's toppling may become the signature video clip signifying the event, images from elsewhere in the city served as a reminder that this was nothing like Berlin...
Last weekend was punctuated by forceful statements from protesters and political leaders alike. Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Boston, Berlin and Bangladesh, some burning effigies of Tony Blair and George Bush. Over 150,000 marched in Calcutta and 200,000 in Jakarta, where protesters chanted “Hang Bush now,” and “America Imperialist, number one terrorist...