Word: berliner
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Live Aid organizer bob Geldof called a press conference last week to announce his attempt to reanimate his monstrous success of 20 years ago. This time round, the biggest global rock show on earth, punningly called Live 8, will consist of free concerts in Berlin, London, Paris, Philadelphia and Rome on July 2, followed by a public demonstration on the eve of the G-8 conference in Scotland. The idea is to pressure G-8 participants to help reduce poverty in Africa. But this time Geldof's monster may be out of control. He and co-organizer Midge Ure implored...
Time's report on Europe's most influential big-city mayors was a good thing [May 16]. I agree with the views of one of your choices, Klaus Wowereit, mayor of Berlin. He stated that despite financial and economic constraints in our city, "You must show a sense of enjoyment in life." Most people forget about doing that when times are hard. Chipepo Chibesakunda Berlin I cannot understand Time's praise for a politician like Berlin's Wowereit. It was outrageous to feature a Clinton-like character whose sole contribution to Germany has been to paint a feel-good...
...ring tone is sold across Europe, the U.S. and Australia), the track looks set to top the British singles chart this week, a first for a ring tone. That "might be a little embarrassing" for Coldplay, admits HMV spokesman Gennaro Castaldo, but it's a hit with Jamster!, the Berlin-based mobile-phone entertain- ment firm that's already earned millions in Crazy Frog ring-tone sales. Jamster!, which is owned by U.S. software firm VeriSign, receives a slice of sales of the CD single, due for release in France this week. Will ring tones soon regularly outsell rock stars...
When Korean university student Chang Je Hyung did a brief stint at Samsung's office in Berlin last year, it made him angry. He had to help prepare a holiday trip to Germany for chairman Lee Kun Hee and his family. According to Chang, dozens of Samsung employees spent two months sweating over details of the private visit, even going to fancy restaurants to try out food the chairman might eat. Instead of tipping off the mainstream media, Chang sent a first-person account to online newspaper OhmyNews earlier this year. It created a sensation...
...Adams: Alexander H. Berlin, Gabriel I. Chodorow-Reich, Brian M. Haas, Rebecca L. Lambert, Andrew W. Ng, Stephen W. Stromberg