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...What shall I do? Order you to shoot?" As a crowd of 20,000 of his countrymen implored him to "Open the gate!" on that chaotic Thursday evening, Harald Jager, head of passport control at the Berlin Wall's Bornholmer Strasse checkpoint, kept shouting that rhetorical question at the guards under his command. It was nearly 11 p.m., four hours since Jager heard the stunning news on TV: the East German Politburo, responding to weeks of peaceful demonstrations and a flood of refugees fleeing through Hungary and Czechoslovakia, had announced that all citizens could leave East Germany at any crossing...
Remember when bluetooth was going to change your life? Named after Harald Bl?tand, a Viking King who united Norway and Denmark in the 10th century, Bluetooth (English for Bl?tand) is a wire-free way to unite electronic devices - and it promised to eliminate cabling for good. Originally dreamed up by Ericsson and released as an international standard in 1998, Bluetooth has been the subject of the wildest predictions; one report issued last year said that by 2006, Bluetooth-enabled devices would generate an astounding $333 billion in revenue. So far, Bluetooth has failed to live up to its hype. Analysts...
That done, the members can look forward to their next important gathering: on Dec. 9, the night before Carter receives his medal from King Harald, he will dine with the committee at the Grand Hotel. The Little Dinner, as it's called, is a chance "for a face-to-face, heart-to-heart talk," says St?lsett. "The laureate knows he has our respect - so it's fun." The most memorable Little Dinner was in 1994, when Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin broke bread together. They talked "like old friends," recalls Lundestad, "about Jerusalem, block by block, who lived...
...with the law. As the debate heats up, users of the hundreds of millions of phones and e-mail accounts across the E.U. may take comfort in their numbers and in the tens of millions of euros that greater surveillance would cost. "Investigators would suffocate in data junk," observes Harald Summa, director of Germany's Electronic Commerce Forum. So, too, the right to privacy could soon be gasping for breath, yet another victim of the "war on terror...
Unfortunately, the theme of this year’s Biennale does little to tie all of these elements together into a coherent overall exhibition. Admittedly, connecting circus posters with photographs of execution cells is a daunting task, but Director Harald Szeemann’s title “Platea dell’umanita,” (Plateau of Humankind) proves too grandiose to be noble. It remains unclear what, exactly, is the on this plateau: Is it the exalted artists? Is it the ideas of (in)humanity that they express? Or is it the Biennale itself? The implication seems...