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...calling St. John's wort "a gentle remedy" and "a rival to Prozac." Pills and potions containing extracts of hypericum are selling briskly in supermarkets and health-store chains from New York to California. "We are stunned and pleased," says Karl-Heinz Siewert, managing director of Lichtwer Pharma, a Berlin-based company that markets hypericum under the brands Kira and Jarsin...
Such findings, according to Dietrich Wildung, curator of the Egyptian Museum in Berlin, represent "nothing less than the discovery of a new dimension of the ancient world." The sense of breaking new ground, and of taking archaeology in a new direction, has contributed to what Wildung calls "the pioneer spirit in Sudan...
...Timothy Garton Ash, a Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford, reconstructing one's past involves a "continuous remixing of memory and forgetting." For much of 1980, while working on a doctorate in history, Garton Ash lived in East Berlin. Inevitably, he became an object of interest to East Germany's omnipresent secret police, known by the acronym Stasi. In The File (Random House; 262 pages; $23), Garton Ash, now 42, tries to reconstruct that year behind Berlin's Wall by comparing his private notes from the period with what he found in Stasi's newly opened records. Going further...
SENTENCED. EGON KRENZ, 60, East Germany's last communist leader; to 6 1/2 years in prison, for responsibility in the shooting death of people trying to cross the Berlin Wall; in Berlin...
...officers felt justified in using illegal and at times fatal force. It was constantly necessary to emphasize to the officers that we were peace officers, servants of the community--not soldiers in a war against crime and drugs. Cities in free nations will never reflect the orderliness of Berlin under the Nazis or Moscow under the communists. In America police methods must comply with the law and community standards. They must not arise from a rigid concept of public order formulated within the police culture...