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Koppel said he thought the recer Nancy Kerrigan/Tonya Harding case received more intense media coverage than the San Francisco earthquake or the fall of the Berlin Wall. He said this reflected an unfortunate but necessary part of journalism today...
Indeed, just five years after the fateful date passed, the Berlin wall was down and the Soviet Union had collapsed. Gone were the Staasi, the KGB and the secret police forces of every other fallen communist regime, which in their heyday terrorized ordinary civilians with the knowledge that their words and actions were being watched. Across the East Bloc and around the world, people breathed easier at the spread of freedom and the demise of Big Brother...
...like a national patriotic day for the whole world, a day when flags wave and people march and the grim realities of the past and, often, the present, are forgotten in a global surge of pride and unity. The reality has often been less inspiring -- in Hitler's Berlin in 1936, in the Munich beset by Palestinian terrorists in 1972, in the tit-for-tat cold war boycotts of 1980 and 1984, not to mention the myriad smaller moments when political bitterness or personal dishonor or random fate blemished the panorama of joyful striving. But whatever the misdeeds and mischances...
After four Haitian refugees were found drowned off the coast of Florida, ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide denounced the U.S. policy of forcing Haitian boat people to return to their country, calling the policy a "floating Berlin Wall...
...helmets. Slowly but surely, the demarcation lines will dissolve into a border line between different "states." This will cement what has always been the ultimate goal of Milosevic and Karadzic. Those interested in knowing what this really means can go and take a look at the place where the Berlin Wall was or the place where a similar wall stretches across Nicosia in Cyprus...