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...thoroughly that almost nothing reminds me of them now, but in my few weeks in Berlin, the city has repeatedly evoked those troubled times. It's mostly been general impressions: of being reduced to a vocabulary that lacks words like “recommend”; of having to spell-check every piece of writing anyone else might see, even a three-line email; of, at 5’7”, fitting into approximately the same place in the Teutonic height spectrum as I did in the American one 8 years ago, when...
...didn't spell out how he intended to shut down the America of the influence peddlers, but nobody really expected him to. It was a satisfying moment for the hundreds of people in the crowd, who shouted lustily as Edwards thundered away. At a press conference after the speech, Edwards was asked how he'll respond to the inevitable accusations of class warfare. "I would say that we have in fact two different Americas," he replied. "It's a reality. I'm not against people doing well. I'm a leading example of someone who has done extremely well. Elizabeth...
...spectacular documentary La Soufrire. On the Amazon epic Fitzcarraldo, he took his crew hundreds of miles from the nearest city and had them lug a 320-ton riverboat overland and up steep hills. He found a suitably lush location on the Amazon and ran into the longest dry spell in the region's history. "I shouldn't make movies anymore," he said in Les Blank's documentary Burden of Dreams. "I should go to a lunatic asylum. This is not what a man should do with his life...
...McGovern, a critic of Fowler-Finn, replaces Walser, this could spell trouble for the superintendent, whose contract comes up again for renewal in January 2008, when the new School Committee will be in office...
...kind in the U.S., as ranked by assets (and 24th by deposits), nipping at the heels of regional powerhouses such as Sovereign and KeyCorp. Even heavyweights like Citibank and HSBC are taking notice, rolling out "direct" banks of their own. Kuhlmann welcomes the competition. In fact, he will spell out his formula for them: "We simply asked, 'What does a customer really want...