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...father its past is still unclear. But Gaddafi agreed to curtail Libya's nuclear-weapons program as well as pay damages to the families of those killed in the 1988 Pan Am airline bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, and the non-American survivors of the 1986 bombing of a West Berlin discothèque. As a result, President Bush announced he would begin lifting economic sanctions against Libya. The European Union recently followed. "It was the right decision," says Seif of his father's new Western-friendly stance, "the right initiative." Since then investors and executives of all stripes have poured...
...Whether it's San Gimignano or the Freedom Tower, it's about the ancient poetic desire to reach the sky." And even sometimes to reach it by pretzeled means. Twelve years ago, the very visionary architect Peter Eisenman was commissioned to design a showcase building for the recently unified Berlin, a combination of offices and hotel and retail space to be called the Max Reinhardt Haus, after the also very visionary German theater producer. For inspiration, Eisenman turned to nothing less than the Möbius strip, the 3-D geometric form produced by a single twisted surface. Had it been...
...such anti-Bush works as Sam Shepard's new The God of Hell, a caustic parable about a nefarious government agent terrorizing a Wisconsin farm couple, give off the sparks of real political anger. By comparison, the polite, political-science-class dramatics of Democracy seem as outmoded as the Berlin Wall. --By Richard Zoglin
...Harvard undergraduates, Abbate will be a Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She returns to Harvard after a brief stint as a visiting professor in 1993 and has taught at other universities around the globe including California-Berkelely and Freie Universitat in Berlin...
Wings of Desire, a predominantly German-language film about the angels who watch over Berlin and the one who eventually decides to become mortal after falling in love with a trapeze artist, was the original City of Angels. It’s screened here with Swedish director Ingmar Bergman’s clever comedy Love Me. Call the Harvard Film Archive at (617) 495-4700 for admission details. Wings of Desire at 7 p.m. and A Lesson in Love at 9:15 p.m. The Carpenter Center Main Auditorium...