Word: berliner
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...truth, there is some good news in Germany, but to unearth it, you have to dig deeper. No matter which coalition takes power in Berlin, a more interesting drama is unfolding in the realm below?in the economy, or the "substructure" of capitalist society, as Karl Marx called it. Industry has ruthlessly cut costs by downsizing and off-shoring. Today, Germany's unit-labor costs have fallen way below those of Italy, Spain and France. While job-protection remains a holy cow, business and labor have quietly agreed to let weekly working hours creep up and paid vacation days come...
...stalemate, the economy is adapting in strangely un-German ways because it has no other choice. Germany's "China" is right next door, in the new Europe to the east, where productivity is almost as high as in Germany, but wages are one-sixth of what they are in Berlin and Bavaria...
...north London for several years as a student. Though these two hardly changed the course of history, the passion and eloquence Seth brings to their story makes Two Lives fascinating - and maybe even worth its reported $2.5 million advance. Born in a northern Indian village, Shanti Seth went to Berlin in 1931 to study dentistry. There he stayed in the apartment of a Jewish widow whose daughter, Henny Caro, became one of Shanti's closest friends. Shanti moved to Edinburgh to continue his studies in 1937, as anti-Jewish laws were making life difficult for the Caros in Berlin. Henny...
...cities tend to be durable things. They eventually shake off the effects of even the worst catastrophes. A decade after the Great Fire of 1871, Chicago had a booming economy and a population of half a million people, up from about 300,000 the night the fire began. Berlin, Hiroshima, Rotterdam--all were leveled during World War II; all are flourishing...
...East Berlin's budding Mitte district?home to edgy boutiques and cool caf?s?finally has a hotel to mirror its artsy ethos. Located in a row of whitewashed 18th century houses, Lux Eleven (lux-eleven.com) was once a key KGB listening post reporting directly to Moscow. Today, following two years of painstaking refurbishment (which, according to its general manager, Thomas T?nzer, included the removal of an inordinate amount of cable and a smattering of furtive contraptions), this historic edifice has been artfully transformed into 72 apartment-style rooms, outfitted in a pared-down combination of bleached wood and concrete...