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...hung or not. "Ordinary people don't want to pay a high price to change the political situation; they have already been through the revolutionary experience," says Hamid Reza Jalaipour, a reformist journalist who spent a month in prison in 2000 after attending a conference on Iran in Berlin. According to Jalaipour, the students and reformists in parliament share the idea that reform should be gradual. "The target of a revolution is usually the collapse of the political system," Jalaipour says. "In this case, we are looking for modification." Student leaders, anxious not to provoke a violent reaction from...
...subjects of winning collections have varied widely in the past, ranging from East Asian cooking and artifacts relating to the Berlin subway system to comic books, children’s book illustrations, aviation dictionaries and lepidoptery...
...economy. A song attacking his tax increases hit the top of the pop charts, and then a German Web designer urged Germans to protest by sending Schröder "the shirts off our backs" - and now 1,000 shirts a day are arriving at the chancellery in Berlin. Schröder complained in a television interview that he and his family had received personal threats in an unprecedented tide of hate mail. And now it gets worse: a steady stream of Mittelstand companies - the small- and medium-sized firms that have been the backbone of the German economy for decades...
...morbid state of Germany's government wasn't on the agenda last week when Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and French President Jacques Chirac held a working dinner at a castle outside Berlin. Yet, perversely, Schröder's problems could help get relations between Paris and Berlin over a difficult hump. France has been nursing the Continent's most important relationship with a sense of wounded pride for the last few years. Not only did reunification make Germany the bigger partner, but the imminent prospect of a big-bang enlargement of the European Union threatened to put the Germans...
...parents." The military details of the Allied air warfare on Hitler's Germany between 1940 and 1945 have been extensively described by professional historians. Yet the suffering of those who experienced the bombing has largely been relegated to fireside tales, memoirs, and fictional accounts. A new book by Berlin historian Jörg Friedrich, Der Brand (The Conflagration, Propyläen; 592 pages) now brings to life the horror of those nights when British and American fighter planes dropped half a million bombs on some 1,000 towns and cities, killing 635,000 people. "I wanted to show what happens...