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Through April 9. "Places of Remembrance: AMemorial for Jews Living in Berlin From1933-1945," exhibiting banners with the texts ofthe rules and regulations concerning Jews that theNazis mandated during those 13 years...
SHORTLY AFTER THE FALL OF NAZI Germany in May 1945, a young Russian field engineer named Victor Baldin was poking through the cellars of Karnzow Castle, just north of Berlin, where he and other Soviet Army officers were billeted. By the dim light of a candle, he found several bulging portfolios of drawings and watercolors. Their names leaped out at him: Durer, Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Gogh. Amazed at the discovery, Baldin begged his officers for transport space to carry this abandoned trove back to the Soviet Union-to no avail. There was no room on the trucks, and the brigade...
...victims, William Cullen, 25, of Berlin, was in critical condition at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester...
Half a world away, the sinking dollar had a very different impact on vacation-bound Germans. They jammed foreign-exchange counters from Bonn to Berlin in search of greenbacks to spend at U.S. destinations such as Disney World in Florida or ski resorts in Colorado. Latecomers found banks sold out of dollars and were advised to try again in several days. That was not good enough for determined folk in Munich, who roamed from bank to bank in the hope of laying hands on the suddenly scarce currency...
That was in 1985. When I finally came to my senses, the Berlin Wall had fallen and the Democrats were back in the White House, while I had just bought my fourth home computer and had spent thousands more on new software. My boss was demanding my long-overdue big report about the future of electronic media. I had run out of excuses. ``More research,'' I kept saying, ``I gotta do more research on the net.'' He shook his head and sent me to see the company shrink. At first, the net had seemed so exotic and cutting edge...