Word: berliner
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...SUED. ELIZABETH TAYLOR, 72, U.S. film star, over the ownership of Vincent Van Gogh's View of the Asylum and Chapel at Saint-Remy; in Los Angeles. The descendants of Margarete Mauthner, a Jewish refugee who fled from Berlin to South Africa in 1939, say there is evidence the 1889 painting was confiscated from Mauthner by the Nazis. Taylor claims the painting, which she bought at a Sotheby's auction in London in 1963 for $257,000 and which is now worth $15 million, was sold by Mauthner in 1933, the year the Nazis came to power, "for financial reasons...
...fight against terrorism, too. "We should not be engaged in the war on terror," he said. "This is a war between the West and al-Qaeda. We are not part of it." Libya is making amends for its own terrorist war, however. In 1986, Libyan operatives bombed a Berlin discothèque, killing three, including two U.S. servicemen. The U.S. retaliated by sending fighter jets to bomb Gaddafi's personal residence, killing his adopted daughter. Last month, Gaddafi agreed to a $35 million compensation deal for the non-American Berlin victims. Last Thursday, German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder went...
...that night, Philippe and I joined the pub crawl. This was my chance to ditch the “Harvard student” tag and join the international crowd in Berlin as a regular party dude. We joined the other would-be revellers (mostly American and Australian students) and toasted our bottle of complementary beer, exchanging introductions and soon moving on to overt flirtation. I was getting pretty, you know, excited for the night...
...however, the pub crawlers did not prove the hardcore partygoers they pretended to be. By the time we had reached the final destination, a famous Berlin nightclub, most of the group that started out were gone. Philippe and I called up two recently-met party-buddies, Swedish-speaking Finns Lala and Djingis (yes, these are their actual names). This was turning into something like our previous party nights in Berlin, where our inability to speak German prevented us from any fruitful socializing. I started dancing with abandon on the dance floor, resigning myself to the situation...
COLLINS ONUOHA Berlin...