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...Berlin before the Iron Curtain. The new building celebrates its renewed role as the focal point of the reunified metropolis. "We drew on the fact that Lehrter Stadtbahnhof was the center of Berlin, the embodiment of a lively city quarter," says architect Jürgen Hillmer of German firm Von Gerkan, Marg and Partner. And lively it will be again. Even after the soccer fans are gone, an estimated 300,000 people are expected to pass through the station daily...
...favorites, and an inspiration to the young Dylan. Indeed, I thought Dylan's "Baby Let Me Follow You Down" was a radio-friendly bowdlerization of Van Ronk's "Baby, Let Me Lay It on You." (Turns out Dylan learned the song from its author, Eric Von Schmidt, and Van Ronk took it from Dylan. In his conversation with Crowe, Dylan says puckishly of the song, "Dave Van Ronk might have played...
...which swept the prestigious Lola German Film Awards this month in Berlin, is going strong at the German box office with its story of a successful stage actress whose life is destroyed by a lecherous Culture Minister and the Stasi. The director of The Lives of Others, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 33, says he did not set out to make a political point but wanted to personalize the period. "Cinema is a good barometer to show what is going on in a country," Von Donnersmarck told Time. His film is being heralded as the first major feature to examine...
...VON DER HEYDTThrough these last few years of transition at Harvard, a corrosive notion has been seeping into the groundwater: the idea that a “global university” should focus relatively less of its intellectual energy on the United States. To those who consider this country an experiment in noble and complex human principles, this way of thinking is merely disagreeable. But academic faux-cosmopolitanism is also just untrue: the U.S. is itself the keystone of any viable account of globalization. If anything, intellectual engagement with American public affairs should now be more, not less, central...
...year-round skiing. There are two Finnish saunas, a dampfbad (steam bath) and a whole host of esoteric treatments on offer, including sea-salt peels, lymphatic drainage and meditation coaching. There's even a floatarium?a saltwater pool in a private room with ambient melodies piped in. The Von Trapps would never recognize it, but such is the new sound of music in Zell...