Word: wiring
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...separation." What does that mean, exactly? Not quite clear. As former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak explains it, "We'll be here and they'll be there." In between, a presumably impenetrable barrier. Split the house into two units, with iron doors locked and bolted between them, and razor wire on the windows. The cobra has one condominium, the mongoose gets the other. It's not a happy way to live, but it would be better, for both sides, than today's vicious intimacy...
...corner by sticking so resolutely to its guns on the ABM treaty. Putin may find it difficult to relent on the treaty now that he's dug in his heels - although his strategy for maximizing diplomatic gains seems to depend on taking these standoffs right down to the wire. (Of course Russia achieves some moral high ground if it forces Bush's hand, because by withdrawing from the treaty that girds nuclear arms control, the U.S. would deepen European antipathy for an administration already considered alarmingly unilateralist by many of its allies.) Holding out may also be based...
...years ago this week that East German soldiers, equipped with shovels and concrete blocks and barbed wire, began to build the Berlin Wall. It was yet another dark development in the crisis-ridden first summer of John Kennedy's Presidency. There had been the Bay of Pigs in April, then the June summit in Vienna where Soviet boss Nikita Khruschev pounded the table in Kennedy's face and declared that partitioned Berlin was "a bone in my throat" he intended to be rid of soon...
...Early on the morning of August 13, thousands of frightened East Germans were fleeing across the flimsy boundary into free West Berlin. At 2 a.m. there were sirens, then the rumble of tanks on the East Berlin cobblestones. East German troops carrying rolls of barbed wire, concrete pillars, stone blocks, picks, and shovels leapt out of their trucks. Four hours later, millions of Berliners lived in a huge communist pen which over the next decade would be broadened and built into an automated armed fortress of steel and concrete -a fortress which stood as a monstrous rebuke to freedom...
...senses recover, however, the brilliance fades. Plastic bottles litter the lawns, the canals are dirty, guides offering tours for an inflated price are maddeningly insistent. The colored engravings are chipped and, in places, have fallen off. The graves in the basement are off-limits, the entrance blocked with untidy wire mesh. The inner sanctum smells of bats and pigeon droppings. Enormous beehives hang from the arches; black smoke stains mark where others have been burned off. The river behind the tomb is sluggish from sewage...