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...Israeli person.'" Ballin says she feels the same way, while admitting that she finds it hard to hear others criticizing her country, "even though I do this myself." Saleem Abboud, 25, is a Palestinian Israeli who was discovered by Edward Said playing piano in Nazareth. Now based in Berlin, he has attended all four West-Eastern Divan gatherings, the first held in the German city of Weimar in 1999. "The way we talk to each other is as important as concrete matters like withdrawal or dividing Jerusalem," he says. "The orchestra is an attempt to create a new reality...
...pursuit of all things beautiful began in dance. As a teen, Riefenstahl started taking lessons without the permission of her father, a Berlin plumber. In 1924, hobbled by a knee injury, she went to see Arnold Fanck's Mountain of Destiny, part of the Bergfilm (mountain film) genre that set its scenes improbably high in the mountains. Enthralled, she saw the movie repeatedly and eventually met Fanck. He cast Riefenstahl in his next film, The Holy Mountain, and for the next several years, she acted, did her own stunts (one critic dubbed her Ölige Ziege - Oily Goat...
Fuchs, who studied German in high school and in his first year at Harvard, spent a summer playing jazz piano in Berlin before his sophomore year...
...Their sound did cater to a hip crowd. They played in small bars and clubs, but the bars were always full,” said his wife of four months, Nina E. Fuchs, whom he met while in Berlin...
GERMANY Frequent Flyer Chancellor Gerhard Schröder got a gift from an unlikely quarter - the resignation of Gregor Gysi, leader of the Party for Democratic Socialism, the old East German communists. Gysi quit as both party leader and economics minister of Berlin over a scandal about his use of air miles - totted up on official business - for personal trips. The charismatic Gysi was the most prominent PDS figure and the one most popular among people in western Germany and young voters. His resignation could be a lifeline for Schr?der's re-election hopes. If the pds fails to gain...