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Situated in Berlin's elegant mitte district, the Hotel de Rome channels history. It was built in 1889, and its ornate stone edifice originally housed the headquarters of Germany's Dresdner Bank and, following World War II, the state bank of communist East Germany (D.D.R.). Although the austere D.D.R. officials resented the building's opulence, they couldn't afford its demolition and instead boarded over its mosaic stone floors and ornate molding, inadvertently preserving them for today's luxury traveler...
...First Russian leader in decades with no known links to either the former Soviet Communist Party or its secret services. He is also the country's youngest head of state since Nicholas II became czar...
...country and posing for some photo ops. Maybe he'd even sneak in some history-making diplomatic feats. Exhibit A: Richard Nixon. He's remembered for his 1972 trip to China almost as much as he is for Watergate. And while it's conceivable that relations with the Communist country could have been normalized without a face-to-face meeting between Nixon and Chairman Mao Zedong, news photos of the two leaders shaking hands - not to mention images of Nixon walking the Great Wall and eating with chopsticks - helped convince Americans that Red China was not to be feared...
Retailing for about 100 rubles each (or close to $3), Russians can buy them at wholesale at Udelnaya for half the price. For most Russians, medicinal leeches are not looked upon as exotic or primitive. Under Communist rule, leeches were readily available for sound therapeautic purposes. "It was mandatory for each pharmacy to have 25 leeches in stock at a time," says Nikonov, who has worked at the Center for 19 years. He is very proud that the rest of the world is now catching up to Russia. (Check out the story of a modern-day exorcist...
...things that these governments rarely admit is that they may not have the capacity to borrow in the open debt market the way that the U.S. Treasury can. China may not want to own paper from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and it is hard to blame the communist central government in the big Asian country for that. The U.S. is still viewed as unique in both the size of its GDP and its potential to maintain impressive economic growth rates over long periods of time, in large part because of its vast pool of consumers. (See the 25 people...