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...other German news, the “Windhorst” bar in Berlin borders on the U.S. Embassy and now requires that patrons undergo a passport check and full body search. People who have gone through the process twice have been seen...
...Newton doesn't mind. In the 1980s the Berlin-born Australian citizen (he now lives in Monte Carlo) tried his hand at pornography, shooting for the likes of Playboy. And he has proclaimed that he intends to become less politically correct as he gets older. He turned 80 last year and is selling better than ever. Earlier this month "Sex and Landscapes," the first commercial sale of Newton's work in two years, opened at the De Pury et Luxembourg Art gallery in Zurich. Even before the opening, some 40 prints sold for $30,000 each. This fall the Mary...
Runners have an unlikely friend in giant killer hornets. At the Berlin marathon on Sunday, Naoko Takahashi sped to the finish line after drinking juice from the flying bugs, shaving 14 seconds off the record female time...
...terrorists was necessary but that right now there should be a period of reflection. The U.S. needs a deeper understanding of the causes of anti-American feeling among so many around the world. People despise the hubristic rhetoric, which has become markedly louder since the fall of the Berlin Wall. For the mildest of Muslims who support the right of Israel to exist, the punishment of the Iraqi people and the recent hard-line Israeli tactics are immoral and insupportable. Other foreign policies too are creating more enemies than friends for the superpower. Tyrants and undemocratic governments have been backed...
...have preferred a powerful bureaucracy; did that disprove their contention that the war was the Emperor’s fault? Without additional sources to compare these to, without the ability to use them constructively in forming historical judgment, the charge of bias was no more than what Isaiah Berlin termed a memento mori, an expression of human fallibility and error with no historical content. Or, to quote Berlin once more: “One cannot cast doubt on everything at once, for then nothing is more dubious than anything else, and there are no standards of comparison and nothing...