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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the great breach finally came, it started undramatically. At a press conference last Thursday, Schabowski announced almost offhandedly that starting at midnight, East Germans would be free to leave at any point along the country's borders, including the crossing points through the Wall in Berlin, without special permission, for a few hours, a day or forever. Word spread rapidly through both parts of the divided city, to the 2 million people in the West and the 1.3 million in the East. At Checkpoint Charlie, in West Berlin's American sector, a crowd gathered well before midnight. Many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archive: Freedom! The Berlin Wall | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

TRACY CHAPMAN: CROSSROADS (Elektra). The follow-up to her smash debut album in 1988 is . . . well, just like the first. Chapman's voice stays strong, her music soft, her message angry and often oppressively earnest. Straightforward and worthy but generally without excitement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Nov. 20, 1989 | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...King pronounced himself "quite satisfied" with the election outcome. But the potential exists for Muslim Brotherhood legislators to form a coalition with radical leftists to embarrass him. To be sure, the Hashemite King retains the power to disband Parliament and rule without it. But after calling the elections under popular pressure, he would presumably be reluctant to exercise such authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jordan Bye-Bye Moderates | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...gain on the other, but if you've done the math right, you'll usually lose a little less than you gain. Yippee! But you've got to keep your transaction costs low and, of course, not get caught with a taxable gain on one half of the hedge without realizing your loss on the other half. It was to avoid that hitch, basically, that Princeton/Newport entered into understandings with Drexel Burnham Lambert and other firms to make these tax sales. "Look," Regan's traders said in essence, "you're not going to have any risk because we're going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: Too Much Firepower to Fit the Crime? | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...system for their own children, and offered to help blacks do the same. The blacks insisted on integrated public schools. Black families that were lucky sent their children to relatives in other counties or states where the public schools were open. But many of the children went five years without entering a classroom. At last, the Supreme Court ordered the public schools reopened, and racially integrated. By that time, a generation of Prince Edward's black children had been profoundly wounded. Many have never recovered. The drama blew a hole in their lives. A documentary film about those years called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prince Edward and the Past | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

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