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...them, arms outstretched. His intervention saved the substantial chunk of the Wall along the Wedding-Mitte border that today forms the core of the Berlin Wall memorial. Plans have been drawn up to add a secular shrine to the victims of the Wall with their portraits embedded in a "window of memory." The list of 136 victims includes eight G.D.R. border guards: two deserters shot by their comrades and six killed by West German police protecting escapees. To exclude them, says Klausmeier, would ignore the extent to which East Germans were coerced by the state. (See pictures of East Germany...
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO Will curtail trash removal and window-washing to save...
...refugee, which is entirely wrong," Manne says. "Coming to Australia from a place of oppression isn't the same as standing in a queue at the supermarket and waiting for your turn. It's more like escaping a burning house. Sometimes you have to break a window and jump...
...accessories. She also connects with consumers at Down:2:Earth, a local sustainable living exposition.For other fledgling retail ventures, however, attracting buyers still takes a dash of creativity, genuine friendliness, and the old-fashioned tactics so typical of the Boston scene. If the whimsically styled mannequins in the window of Cambridge’s Vintage Revenge don’t pull you in, owner Denise Goldhagen and her exuberant Great Dane, Yentzer, will. Goldhagen, who opened up shop two months ago after shuttling the business throughout the Midwest for 11 years, admits to handing out flyers, publicizing herself...
...little too close to the capital's most famous landmark. In late August, residents were notified by the compound's managers that, during the planned Oct. 1 parade marking the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, they should refrain from opening "any window or balcony door" facing the parade route. Nor should they stand on the balcony to watch the procession. "When I asked them what would happen if we did go out on the balcony," one resident says, "in so many words they said we could get shot...