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...command. It was presented at an informal meeting of the Security Council on Friday. Both Washington and London remained upbeat about the resolution's chances of success, despite early opposition from France and Germany, which staunchly opposed the war on Iraq. After a bilateral meeting in Dresden, French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder said the proposal did not give the U.N. sufficient political authority in Iraq and did not foresee a speedy enough handover of power to Iraqis. But though Schröder publicly called the proposal not "dynamic or complete enough," White House sources...
...that simply fit into the West's cliché," he says. "We didn't want to exhibit art from the G.D.R. as it had been shown as an export product for the West." Instead, the exhibit begins with a series of dark images, such as sketches of bombed-out Dresden after the war by Wilhelm Rudolph, who wandered among the ruins with notepad in hand. Then there is a collection of formalist drawings and paintings with winding lines and bursts of color, not only surprising because of their contrast to Rudolph's work, but also because they defied the Communist...
...average of 18 km/h; even George Stephenson managed to go faster on some stretches of his maiden run 178 years ago. And passengers sometimes don't do much better. Linda Bienge, a 39-year-old clerk in Berlin's criminal court, was traveling back to the German capital from Dresden one evening recently when her train came to a standstill for almost two hours. "I was fuming," she says. It took the conductors 45 minutes to apologize for the delay. But they never explained what caused...
...behind the Iron Curtain. Of course, the U.S. military’s record in the 20th Century was not completely stain-free. War, as the cliché goes, can be hell, and our armies have certainly not been immune to its depredations. But incidents such as the firebombing of Dresden and the My Lai massacre have been exceptions to the much more consistent rule...
...Dresden Dolls, the Boston rock duo with an eclectically anachronistic style, dressed as mimes and held the stage for a 20-minute pre-ceremony performance...