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BORN: May 16, 1952, Boston EDUCATION: Harvard U, B.A., 1973, M.S., 1975; Johns Hopkins U, Sc.D., 1978 FAMILY: Wife, Janet; one child RELIGION: Protestant MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Professor of public health and economic policy POLITICAL CAREER: Sought Democratic nomination for U.S. House, 1994 ADDRESS: 7125 Chandler Drive, Berlin...
While on a Fulbright Scholarship in Germany, Young witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall, an experience he's used as a major theme in his campaign. Young, who grew up in the vast woods of Aroostook County and picked potatoes for his spending money, pledges to empower Americans by tearing down the wall-like structures of Big Government. He wants to cut taxes, protect private property and generally get Washington out of the way of citizen prosperity...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "No government [pulled down the Berlin Wall]... People did that...
BORN: Nov. 7, 1930, Berlin, Germany EDUCATION: Johns Hopkins U, B.S., 1950; New York U, LL.B., 1953 FAMILY: Wife, Ellen; four children RELIGION: Jewish MILITARY: Army, 1954-55 OCCUPATION: Retailer POLITICAL CAREER: Republican National Committee, 1971-78; U.S. Senate, 1978-90 ADDRESS: 7415 Wayzata Boulevard, Minneapolis...
...book offers many such pointed moments. Kramer quotes a West German after the Wall has come down, saying, "What can I possibly say to an East Berlin scientist who, after years of trying, finally gets permission to travel, and buys an old piece of western equipment for his lab, and spends a year rebuilding it, and is proud of it--and then scientists from the West arrive and say, 'This East German science is ridiculous,' and his lab is closed." In her chapter about the opening of the Stasi files, Kramer focuses on a poet, Alexander Anderson...