Word: berliner
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Educated Muslim scholars are right to deny Muhammad’s teachings were violent, but they should be more concerned about their brothers in faith than with folks in Rome, Paris, or Berlin. An Iranian hardliner like Ahmad Khatami opined that Benedict and Bush have “united in order to repeat the Crusades.” If those words do not seem extreme enough, Salih Kapusuz, from the governing Turkish party AKP expressed that the Pope “is going down in history in the same category as leaders such as Hitler and Mussolini...
...Nixon in China and Man on the Moon two in a wide and gentle extension of his arms with the expectation that the weight of history would bring their two hands together. It did. First Arafat reached out, then after what seemed like endless minutes, Rabin responded. Simple, shattering. Berlin Nov. 20, 1989 It was a combination of the fall of the Bastille and a New Year's Eve blowout, of revolution and celebration. At the stroke of midnight on Nov. 9, thousands who had gathered on both sides of the Wall let out a roar and started going through...
...German Catholicism is as tired as some people think," he said. The 79-year-old pontiff also made an explicit reference to his age, when asked why he was remaining in the southern region of Bavaria (where he will visit his birthplace in Marktl am Inn), foregoing visits to Berlin and other German cities. "I'm an old man," he said, "and I don't know how many more years the Lord will give...
...Trade Center project got away from him. The New York City developer who held the lease on the Twin Towers brought in his own architect to "collaborate" on the centerpiece Freedom Tower. Libeskind, who was a canny enough player to have ushered a Jewish Museum into the heart of Berlin, was gradually marginalized. By the time construction began in April, the much revised skyscraper bore so little resemblance to his original idea, he had taken his name...
...estimated at $1.2 billion, is leaving after reaching the firm's mandatory retirement age but will continue to serve as nonexecutive chairman. DIED. Joseph Hill, 57, socially conscious reggae guru who became one of the genre's first prominent voices; after falling ill while on a European tour; in Berlin. In the 1970s his foreboding, heavily percussive "roots-reggae" won fans, among them British punk rockers and Virgin chief Richard Branson, who in 1978 signed Culture?the band Hill fronted for 30 years until his death?to Virgin's new reggae label, Front Line. DIED. Ed Thrasher, 74, influential Warner...