Word: berliner
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...iconoclast who settled happily into a role at the peak of the German establishment, and whose international fame and personal popularity always seemed out of kilter with the modest size of his Green party, has retired from frontline politics. He left the Bundestag, the seat of parliament in central Berlin, with a wave at waiting reporters and a typically informal salutation: "Ciao, ragazzi." That exit marked the end not only of Fischer's ministerial career but of the government in which his party served as junior partners to the Social Democrats. "The red-green chapter which my generation wrote...
...reminded many of a past their parents and grandparents preferred not to discuss. Schröder's ease in front of the camera and on the stump helped his party recoup a seven-point deficit in opinion polls prior to last month's election. There's a sense in Berlin that the fun people are clearing their desks. The German Defense Minister, Peter Struck, sang in a rock band; Schröder and Fischer were renowned for their fondness for Cuban cigars and a comfortable lifestyle. "Governing is fun!" Schröder quipped at the end of his first term...
...like the building of the Titanic in a local shipyard. But their necks craned whenever they passed a temple of recent turbulence, like police stations surrounded by high walls and barbed wire, and the West Belfast peace line, a barrier that has separated Catholic and Protestant neighborhoods longer than Berlin was divided by its wall. Their guide, Bren-dan McKernan, laced fact with a heavy dose of blarney. He recited the alphabet soup of Irish paramilitary groups just as the bus passed a fast food restaurant. To the i.r.a., i.n.l.a., u.d.a. and u.v.f., he added kfc. "Their leader was known...
...Orleans. Military and medical aid should have been set up in anticipation. I cannot believe that a civilized and highly developed rich nation was unable to provide people with water, food and medicine over a few days until a broader rescue operation was in place. Vera K. Mathiszik Berlin...
...modern Hitchcockian thriller with style and grace, “Flightplan” is set in a not-so-distant future ruled by streamlined aesthetic minimalism. The film begins in a stark, frozen Berlin where Kyle Pratt (Foster), an emotionally drained aeronautical engineer, boards a luxurious double-decker airplane. Accompanied by her traumatized young daughter, Julia (Marlene Lawston), Kyle is traveling to New York to return the body of her husband, who died unexpectedly under suspicious circumstances...