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...South of the cemetery from which Niebank escaped, the Berlin Wall trail follows a green scar of borderland between Wedding and Prenzlauer Berg, districts linked in Cold War days only by a crossing at Bornholmerstrasse. This was the first of seven inner-city checkpoints to abandon controls in 1989 after an apparatchik named Günter Schabowski announced the lifting of travel restrictions on G.D.R. citizens. At first officers tried to turn away the many thousands who congregated, pedestrians just wanting a look at the other side, and lines of olive green and turquoise blue Trabant cars. Finally the numbers...
...owners. Then she tricked the owners into believing the dogs had misbehaved when they hadn't. When the humans scolded the dogs, the dogs were just as likely to look guilty, even though they were innocent of any misbehavior. What's at play here, she concluded, is not some inner sense of right and wrong but a learned ability to act submissive when an owner gets angry. "It's a white-flag response," Horowitz says...
...also expanding in less-developed western regions like Xinjiang and eastern ones like Inner Mongolia, where the company is building its 39th Chinese bottling plant. Bold moves in a downturn? Maybe, but then again, there's precedent. In the 1930s, Coke broke in to 20 new countries and territories, an expansion of 74% from the start of the decade. This decade may not quite be another Great Depression, but the strategy seems worth repeating...
...court and the percentage of graduates employed as clerks in Article III courts, which include the U.S. Supreme Court, the 12 U.S. Courts of Appeals, and the 94 U.S. District Courts. “Clerkship is a terrific training opportunity and exposes a young lawyer to the inner workings of the judicial system,” said Craig Primis, a 1994 Harvard Law School alumnus now employed at Kirkland and Ellis, LLP. After graduating from law school, Primis clerked for Judge J. Michael Luttig on the U.S. Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit, before taking a clerkship for U.S. Supreme Court...
...Yasujirõ Ozu’s Noriko trilogy of the ’40s, New Wave features starring Monica Vitti and Anna Karina, or the defiant ’80s flick “Thelma and Louise” prove that it’s possible to represent the inner life of a woman with complexity and grace. Gazing at her reflection in the window of a Chinese restaurant, the protagonist of Agnès Varda’s 1962 film “Cléo de 5 à 7” despairs: “My unchanging...