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...into the prestigious French Academy, the epicenter of Enlightenment thought in Europe, Ratzinger gave a discourse about the challenges of democracy and relativism in the modern world. In 2004, he took part in a sort of Ali-Frazier showdown of European intellectual heavyweights when he publicly debated fellow German Jürgen Habermas, considered by some the preeminent leftist philosopher of his generation...
Through Dawsey and his friends, we learn the story of the Germans' World War II occupation of the island, a bleak affair of starvation, humiliation and slave labor. We get to know a cast of scuffed, scarred Guernseyans who formed a book club as an alibi to keep their doings secret from curious Nazis. Where Bridget Jones' mascaraed eye might have turned away from such things (v. unpleasant!), Juliet's focuses in on the story of a fiercely independent, bona fide--quirky Guernseyan named Elizabeth McKenna, now missing, who had an affair, and eventually a child, with a German officer...
...also met with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Berlin mayor Kalsu Wowereit, a strong Obama supporter who presented him with a statue of a bear, the city's symbol. On Friday, Obama continues his foreign trip with a stop in Paris, before embarking on a final leg to Britain...
...about a mile away, where Reagan had spoken. From where the presidential candidate stood, atop a stage onto which he had taken a long walk alone, he could see tens of thousands of people crowded onto the Seventeenth of June Boulevard, named for a 1953 uprising against the East German government...
Berliners lined up to hear the speech more than five hours before it began. All day long, hundreds waited on the streets to catch a glimpse of the motorcade that shuttled Obama among meetings with German officials, starting with Chancellor Angela Merkel. The German leader had objected to Obama's reported original plan to give what would have amounted to a campaign speech at the historic Brandenburg Gate. (Indeed, the Washington Post reported that the U.S. embassy in Berlin instructed foreign service personnel stationed there not to attend Obama's public rally, which the State Department labeled a "partisan political...