Word: berliner
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...BERLIN Meissen brought porcelain to the market in 1708; this breakfast cup and saucer ($530) is its current...
...major automakers, Renault and Peugeot-Citroen, have temporarily shut down production at several plants. Peugeot is expected to present a plan Tuesday to cut 2,700 jobs. In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel has been more cautious in response to the crisis, and warned against precipitate state intervention. Still, Berlin is expected to approve up to $1.26 billion in loan guarantees for Opel if parent company GM goes under...
...Cold A realist's corrective to the first flush of Bondomania, this intelligent 1965 film of the John le Carré novel saw the Cold War as a bitter stalemate in shades of gray. Richard Burton and Oskar Werner are the rival agents whose complex loyalties run into a Berlin Wall...
After erecting a unique version of the Berlin wall during The Game on Saturday—and tearing it down with a missile evoking a phallus—members of the Yale Precision Marching Band have found themselves in administrative trouble. A Yale Daily News article reported yesterday that Director of Bands at Yale Thomas Duffy has suspended the band “from all activities and performances, effective as of this very moment†for its “completely inappropriate and highly offensive†use of props. The prop in question was a makeshift sheet-wall...
...pair also did some barking at each other. Merkel flatly rejected her host's urgings that Germany go beyond the $41 billion in economic spending that Berlin has promised for the next two years. Sarkozy pointedly contrasted Merkel's stand-firm position with his own plans to continue deploying new funds to fight recession. "France is working on it," Sarkozy said of further stimulus spending. "Germany is thinking about...