Word: berliner
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...Watching these shows imparts a valuable lesson about decoding and participating in a social world: We all are constantly creating narratives for ourselves. Steven Berlin Johnson observed the cognitive value of reality TV in his book Everything Bad is Good For You: “As each show discloses its rules and conventions, and each participant reveals his or her personality traits and background, the intrigue in watching comes from figuring out how the participants should best navigate the environment that’s been created for them.” Watch closely, watch often, and patterns start to emerge...
...BERLIN Photo of Anne Frank beau discovered...
...take on a period piece in The Other Boleyn Girl. What is your favorite time in history? -Nikki Barrett, York, PA.I'm really interested in 1920s Berlin. I read this great book by Amos Elon called The Pity of It All. It's about Jewish life in Berlin right before the war. The whole environment of the salons and all this culture-there was a real openness and freedom. It's scary to think the response to that was this incredible fascism...
...writing Passing Strange three years ago. The loosely autobiographical show recounts the artistic journey (in scenes acted, sung and danced by a full cast) of a young man from a middle-class L.A. neighborhood to the drugs-and-free-love wonderland of Amsterdam and a radical artistic commune in Berlin...
...nation's banks managed assets of around $52 billion; by 2006 that figure had surged to more than $150 billion. Clearly there aren't enough Liechtensteiners to pile up that much cash. No wonder the principality has always rebuffed Berlin's demands for the names of German citizens with accounts there. Without the protection offered by its banking-secrecy provisions, Liechtenstein's financial-services boom would quickly die. Hans-Martin Uehlinger, a spokesman for LGT Group, is uttering Liechtenstein gospel when he says, "Paying taxes is the responsibility of the customer, not the bank...