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Just before the halfway point in Charles L. Mee's play Full Circle, East Berlin police officer Herman (John Douglas Thompson), standing 20 feet in the air on a thin rope bridge, frantically asks fellow guard Gunter (Boni B. Alvarez) if they can "have an intermission." After Gunter suggests that he get to the other side of the rope bridge first, Herman cries out that he has to go to the men's room "right now," and drops his trousers. How does Gunter stop this crisis? Only a rendition of "YMCA" will get the petrified Herman in motion...
...suspicion, and adds another element of mystery to the world beyond its border. And despite its resounding message, nobody complains, and the airlines continue to keep us in our kennels because we couldn't afford to be on the other side. It's always stood as the sort of Berlin Wall of social distinction I've wanted to destroy. And I figure someday I'll gather the courage that Reagan did in '88, to stand up and proclaim what is right and just. "Mrs. Stewardess," I'll scream out into the galley, "Tear down that curtain...
...plea bargain by two key suspects in the Bank of New York money laundering scandal exposed last year could prove devastating to some Moscow movers and shakers. Reuters reported Wednesday that former Bank of New York official Lucy Edwards and her husband, Peter Berlin, owner of the company through whose accounts the illegally transferred billions were moved, pleaded guilty in New York to money laundering charges. "Presumably, the government is going to try and get them to cooperate and tell investigators how this money laundering scheme worked, what its mechanisms were," says TIME senior business writer Bernard Baumohl. "And obviously...
...sides are continuing negotiations under a mediator's watch. Lessig, who is on leave from HLS this year, is in Berlin and could not be reached yesterday...
...time undertaking a newly permanent international commitment that results in more, rather than less, human suffering. Republicans have been intoxicated by a new internationalist machismo that offers one final claim to greatness by the leaders of the post-Cold War era. But eleven years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it appears that the Evil Empire...