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...city. "Yes, artists from all over the world are now living in Berlin and, some nights, they all seemed to end up on my living-room sofa," says Jeffrey Eugenides, the American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who lived in Berlin from 1999 to 2003 and goes back every summer. "It's a much wilder place than New York City. There are all kinds of trapdoors you can fall through. It's a bit dangerous, but estimable. The dinner conversation is always serious and never about real estate...
...biggest haunts in the early 1990s was Tresor, a subterranean space near Potsdamer Platz. The club shut down when the area was turned into a giant shopping mall. The Love Parade, an annual techno festival that drew as many as a million people to the streets of Berlin every summer, took place for the last time there in 2006 because of a dispute over who should pay for picking up the mounds of trash. "There's a difficult relationship between the city and the club scene," says Michael Matuschek, who worked as a DJ at Tresor during its glory years...
...still hasn't fallen even with the levels of summer 2008. So why all the hullabaloo? Why the sky-is-falling talk? Part of it is political. When you hear Republicans trying to pin the dollar's troubles on the Obama Administration, for example, it's worth remembering that the dollar has been on a downward trend since 2002. There's also a noisy colony of goldbugs and other Cassandras who are always predicting the dollar's demise...
...United States is a “busy” man. Multiple daily meetings and briefings, speeches, and engagements seem to leave the president with no time to do anything but work—but not so. In August of this year, the president and his family enjoyed a summer vacation at Martha’s Vineyard. In addition to this scheduled activity, the president schedules basketball games with advisors and close friends as well as dinners with his wife. To be fair, unlike President Obama, students don’t have a double-digit staff to handle their daily...
Jason Q. Berkenfeld ’11, who interned in Pelosi’s DC office this summer...