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...always a risk that gentrification will spoil the vibe. One of the biggest haunts in the early 1990s was Tresor, a subterranean space near Potsdamer Platz. The club shut down when the area was turned into a giant shopping mall. The Love Parade, an annual techno festival that drew as many as a million people to the streets of Berlin every summer, took place for the last time there in 2006 because of a dispute over who should pay for picking up the mounds of trash. "There's a difficult relationship between the city and the club scene," says Michael...
...country's 240 million citizens still live under the poverty line, SBY, who has a careful, consensus-driven leadership style, delivered one of the G-20's most impressive economic growth rates this year. His anticorruption drive, which landed even his own son's father-in-law in jail, drew plaudits in a country where graft often feels as omnipresent as urban smog. Little more than a decade after Indonesia emerged from dictatorship, SBY's peaceful re-election is proof that the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation can thrive as a stable democracy. (Read "The 2009 TIME...
...being put to the test. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's announcement that self-professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators will be tried in a Manhattan federal court makes Bharara the man responsible for bringing an unabashed terrorist to justice. Bharara, who drew plaudits for his investigation into the firings of eight U.S. Attorneys under President George W. Bush, has burnished his reputation by prosecuting organized crime figures and white collar criminals. His newest assignment presents more formidable challenges - not least among them, overcoming the argument that information gleaned from Mohammed was coerced...
Schwartz added that one of the reasons why Kennedy, the third longest-serving senator in American history, succeeded in bringing about reform was that he drew heavily on his Harvard connections and often invited experts from the University to act as his advisors...
University President Drew G. Faust remarked on Harvard’s dedication to service, explaining that soldiers from Harvard have “fought across two centuries and around the world...