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...really knows where Groovy trains come from. Only that they appear on time. Groovy train used to be called "In the Groovy Train". It once featured a word puzzle for pre-frosh, to which the solution was "Yale Sucks". This was roughly around the time the Berlin Wall was dismantled. Change...
...leading man on the list is Kohl. As recently as last November he was hailed at the Brandenburg Gate as a national hero for deftly steering his country through the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989; now he is demonized as a national embarrassment. The mass-circulation magazine Stern ran Kohl's photo on its cover showing the former Chancellor dappled with mud. He was lampooned on television's most popular interview show as "Helmut Kohleone," the Teutonic equivalent of the Godfather. Throughout his public humiliation, Kohl, 69, has remained defiant. Since the scandal first erupted late last year...
...whom he received illegal campaign contributions from 1989 to 1996. So far only one of those donors has stepped forward, an arms dealer based in Canada. "The country has been electrified by revelations that Kohl blithely disregarded the stringent campaign finance laws passed by his own government," says TIME Berlin bureau chief Charles Wallace. "The whole notion of German politics being quiet and sober has been blown out of the water. The effect on the media and its coverage of politics has been similar to Watergate - once quiescent newspapers are now aggressively pursuing scoops...
Lots of babies were born to parents who were just lucky or had planned really carefully last April. A Silicon Valley hospital gave its first baby a share of Yahoo! stock and five shares of Silicon Graphics. Twins were born on either side of midnight in Berlin, Virginia, Indianapolis, Oklahoma and Seattle. Regardless of what any of them accomplish in life, this is how they will always be described...
...example strengthened democracy everywhere. "He became a legendary hero," the British philosopher Isaiah Berlin argued. "Peoples far beyond the frontiers of the U.S. rightly looked to him as the most genuine and unswerving spokesman of democracy. He had all the character and energy and skill of the dictators, and he was on our side...