Word: berliner
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...been dramatically successful in building both its economy and a technologically sophisticated workforce. Gumbel was struck by how much Eastern Europe has to teach the West: "When the head of the biggest bank in the country is only 35," says Gumbel, "there's something quite fascinating going on." Berlin bureau chief Andrew Purvis looked at a different kind of line - that separating faith and the state - and found it blurring in both Germany and Turkey. "Secularism," says Purvis, "is no longer taken for granted in either place." Paris correspondent Bruce Crumley studied a reverse migration - not Muslims moving to Europe...
...from nations such as Turkey and Algeria. European politicians are beginning to recognize, as the German Interior Minister said recently, that moderate Muslims are the best possible defense against religious extremism and its violent wing. "We need the cooperation of the Muslim organizations," Wolfgang Schäuble said in Berlin, "to fight against extremists from their own ranks...
...culture, heritage, tradition, which was therefore threatening to their future. I think we may be seeing an unarticulated return to an opening of that old tap." The young are the ones most easily inebriated. Europeans entering university this autumn have no personal memory of the joyous destruction of the Berlin Wall in 1989, let alone the preceding 40-year struggle against the Soviet system during which the survival of a free Europe depended upon an alliance with the U.S. - something their parents felt in their bones even if they disliked particular U.S. policies. The youngsters' professors might teach that...
Many a Sunday brunch has been ruined when I open the New York Times—eager to read an in-depth feature about this month’s offerings at the Museum of Modern Art—but find instead a rave review about an opening in Berlin. The college student who can barely afford an online Times Select subscription surely cannot hop a plane to Paris/London/Bilbao—why must Nicholas Ouroussoff tempt me so? Like the unnaturally blue bagels left beside the toaster, so too is the Times’ Arts section rejected when they insist...
What the hell is happening in Berlin? Us plebians have no idea, and boy are we worried! Thomas Koebner from Universitat Mainz, knows, however, and he’s telling all in his lecture “The Contemporary German Film Scene: What’s Going On?” Enrich your absicht, brag about it to your...