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...train to Berlin and emerged at Mitte, the center of old East Berlin. I found myself alone on this huge square, except for a strange glow coming from a glass plate in the pavement. There was a small white underground chamber lined with empty bookshelves. On it was that famous [Heinrich] Heine quote, 'Where they burn books, they will end up burning people.' It was the monument to the 1933 book burnings. I looked up and saw I was surrounded by Frederick the Great's Neoclassical buildings. Nearby were Hitler's bunker and the old Jewish synagogue...
...often that you see a product made in Afghanistan. The country is the world's biggest opium producer, but that's not an export government officials shout about. Yet before its descent into chaos in the late 1970s, Afghanistan was famous for its pomegranates, grapes, apricots and other fruit. Since then, as war cut the old trade routes and Afghanistan became isolated, traditional markets have been lost. So what were these pomegranates doing in my local fruit shop? And if they were available in Delhi, why aren't they in North America or Europe, where pomegranate popularity has boomed thanks...
...most famous entrepreneurs on campus is Daniel “Zac” Tanjeloff ’08, who says, “I’ve been doing entrepreneurial work since I was nine years...
...Even Sports Illustrated, generally not considered the raunchiest of magazines, earned her wrath. “They ignore women’s sports for 11 months out of the year, and then for one month we become the sport,” she said of the (in)famous swimsuit issue. One female audience member dared object to Dine’s tirade on the “invisibility” of women who did not conform to the slut culture, suggesting that these women bring it upon themselves by masking their femininity with pants suits and unfashionable haircuts...
...Romney's remarks have been compared to John F. Kennedy's famous 1960 speech in Houston about the role his Catholicism would play if he were elected. In that speech, Kennedy told a group of (mostly Baptist) Texas preachers that if he ever faced a choice between violating his conscience or the national interest, he would resign the office...