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...like the building of the Titanic in a local shipyard. But their necks craned whenever they passed a temple of recent turbulence, like police stations surrounded by high walls and barbed wire, and the West Belfast peace line, a barrier that has separated Catholic and Protestant neighborhoods longer than Berlin was divided by its wall. Their guide, Bren-dan McKernan, laced fact with a heavy dose of blarney. He recited the alphabet soup of Irish paramilitary groups just as the bus passed a fast food restaurant. To the i.r.a., i.n.l.a., u.d.a. and u.v.f., he added kfc. "Their leader was known...
...modern Hitchcockian thriller with style and grace, “Flightplan” is set in a not-so-distant future ruled by streamlined aesthetic minimalism. The film begins in a stark, frozen Berlin where Kyle Pratt (Foster), an emotionally drained aeronautical engineer, boards a luxurious double-decker airplane. Accompanied by her traumatized young daughter, Julia (Marlene Lawston), Kyle is traveling to New York to return the body of her husband, who died unexpectedly under suspicious circumstances...
...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...