Word: berliner
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...today's Europe differ from your expectations? I had not imagined we would be 27 members. In the 1960s I thought we would grow a little. Though they were under authoritarian regimes, I thought Greece, Spain and Portugal would one day join us. But I didn't know the Berlin Wall would fall...
...institutions marked a decisive break with the past. As it became apparent that the E.E.C. worked - that common markets provided the sort of stability in which economies can grow - so its appeal spread. Soon, everyone with a claim to be European wanted to join. With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the time was ripe for a dramatic expansion of the E.U. to the east, and gradually, that happened. The E.U. now has 27 members, including three former Soviet republics...
...Darfur and the women of Afghanistan, but who remembers the Bosnian war crimes? Writer-director Jasmila Zbanic’s first film, “Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams,” was nominated for the Sundance Film Festival and awarded the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. Zbanic, a 32-year-old Bosnian, tells the story of her struggling country in the aftermath of the war. Esma (Mirjana Karanovic), one of the tens of thousands of rape victims from the Bosnian war, is trying to make ends meet in the eponymous suburb of Sarajevo...
...word for my life is curiosity,” he says. “I’m an extremely curious person. I hope to open doors for others. I hope they experience something they wouldn’t normally.” Tutschku, who was born in Berlin, has had an intimate relationship with art from a young age. Both his parents were musicians, and he started playing the piano at the age of 5. At 15, he joined a theater group. Although drama is one of his passions, Tutschku prefers the freedom of composing...
...warmest reception. What he got instead was a tense tour finale. Bush apparently hadn't read many of Calderon's remarks in the months and weeks leading up to their Yucatan summit this week - such as his comparing a Bush-approved, 700-mile-long border fence to the Berlin Wall, or calling the illegal immigration issue an "open wound" for U.S.-Mexico relations. Calderon defeated his own left-wing opponent last summer by only half a percentage point, and few countries feel more resentful about Bush's recent snubbing of Latin America than Mexico does. So while Bush rightly considers...