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The Pope, The Arts, A Nation in Crisis

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business

Read More: The Wrapping of the Reichstag, The Depression, Germany, West Germany, Wpa, Berlin, Christo, Berlin Wall, National Endowment for the Arts, Living, The Pope, East Germany, Politics, World, Jeanne-Claude, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

We as a nation have not been upholding ample support for the arts, despite the deep spiritual healing that it can bring -- its joys, its shared experience, its sense of what and who we are.

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Southern Jersey Acme workers plan strike about health-care benefits

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 11.18.2009 | Home

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Acme supermarket cashiers and clerks said they will strike Friday night if negotiators fail to come to an agreement on health-care benefits, a rep...

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Uncommon Knowledge: Vaclav Klaus

FORA.tv | FORA.tv | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home

Read More: Prague, Berlin, Simi Valley-California, Czech Republic, Home News

Uncommon Knowledge: Vaclav Klaus Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1941 during WW II, Vaclav Klaus grew up during the Cold War. After earning a doct...

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Books: 20th anniversary of fall of Berlin wall

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 11.15.2009 | Home

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Two new books explore the history of the Berlin Wall, Stephen King's new "Under the Dome'' and a handful of books on women poets. ...

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Celebrating Berlin While Enabling Israel's Apartheid Wall

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: History, Apartheid, West Bank, Israel Wall, Middle East, Berlin, Angela Merkel, Israel, Berlin Wall, Injustice, Palestinians, Barack Obama, I, World News
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin

The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall highlights both the inherent thirst for freedom and proclivity to hypocrisy ingrained in the human condition.

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Annie Lennox: Positive About HIV

Advocate. | Advocate | Posted 11.11.2009 | Home

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Wearing a powerful T-shirt, pop star Annie Lennox accepts the 2009 Woman of Peace Award in Berlin. ...

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Berlin Wall: The Impact of the Fall 20 Years Later

FORA.tv | FORA.tv | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home

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Berlin Wall: The Impact of the Fall 20 Years Later On November, 2, almost twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the German Marshall Fund of...

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20 Years After the Fall of the Iron Curtain

FORA.tv | FORA.tv | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home

Read More: Berlin, Brussels, Germany, Islamic Republic of Iran, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Home News

20 Years After the Fall of the Iron Curtain Twenty years have passed since the collapse of communism and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The epo...

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Cold War's End -- The Wall Comes Down

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Soviets, Russian, Germany, Nuke, The Wall, Bomb, Democracy in America, The Wall Live, Berlin, Tocqueville, Cold War, Soviet Union, Nukes, East Germany, Communism, Roger Waters, Soviet, Nuclear Weapons, Alexis De Tocqueville, Brandenburg Gate, Chris Weigant, De Tocqueville, Checkpoint Charlie, Russia, Atom Bomb, Berlin Wall, H Bomb, East Berlin, A Bomb, Nuclear Bomb, Brandenburg, Politics News
Chris Weigant

The fall of The Wall signified the fall of the Soviet Union, and an end to the Cold War. And while this was of enormous historical import, I fear that future generations won't really pay much attention to it.

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Both sides remember the day the Berlin Wall fell down

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home

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For decades, the Berlin Wall stood as the symbol of the Cold War. Built in 1961, it was the line in the sand where western democracy ended and communi...

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Berlin Wall Anniversary (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Adam Taylor | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

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Germany celebrated the 20th anniversary of fall of the Berlin Wall Monday. Here is a look at this historic day in photos. Get HuffPost World On Fac...

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Music for the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Tim Mohr | Posted 11.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: 1989, The Cure, Ultravox, 99 Red Balloons, Kate Bush, Nukes, Sisters of Mercy, Atomic War, Billy Bragg, The Smiths, Nena, Nuclear Weapons, Alphaville, U2, Tim Mohr, Atomic Bomb, Berlin Wall, Anne Clark, Bono, Berlin, Entertainment News
Tim Mohr

The awareness of mortality in 1980s nuke-pop was amplified by the inescapably bleak Cold War reality. With the fall of the Wall, much of the threat evaporated. The music, however, lives on.

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Which leader contributed most to the fall of the Berlin Wall?

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home

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Gorbachev and other notable Soviet leaders. Photo: Flickr user hangele Today is the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s demise. World...

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Today: Salvador mudslides, the Berlin Wall and eco-buses

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home

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Stories compiled by Gizem Yarbil, Connie Kargbo, Channtal Fleischfresser, Christine Kiernan, Ivette Feliciano, and Mohammad al-Kassim, and edited by ...

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Who Caused the End of the Cold War?

Joseph Nye | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

Read More: Berlin Wall, Cold War, Mikhail Gorbachev, Berlin, The Cold War, Soviet Union, World News
Joseph Nye

The end of the Cold War was a greater historical transformation than 9/11, but controversy persists about its causes.

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Remembering Kristallnacht in Berlin: The Story of Hans Riess

Stefan Sirucek | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

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Stefan Sirucek

The reason November 9 -- the day the Berlin Wall fell -- is not a national holiday in Germany, is that it also marks a much darker anniversary: Kristallnacht, the so-called "Night of Broken Glass."

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Leaders to mark fall of Berlin Wall

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 11.08.2009 | Home

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German capital to celebrate 20th anniversary of collapse that led to reunification....

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John Reid: The enduring implications of the fall of the Berlin Wall

The Independent | Independent | Posted 11.08.2009 | Home

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The fall of the Berlin Wall, on November 9, 1989, was one of history's truly epochal moments. During what became a revolutionary wave sweeping ac...

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U.N. Birthday Rocks for Its Peacemakers

Jim Luce | Posted 11.06.2009 | New York

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Jim Luce

Flashbulbs popping non-stop, H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations in New York, entered the U.N. General Assembly Hall in New ...

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Wagner descendant slams 'anti-semitic' music at Berlin Wall event

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 11.06.2009 | Home

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Richard Wagner's great-grandson, Gottfried Wagner, on Friday protested the choice of music at festivities 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, ...

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Lessons For US Economic Policy From The Fall Of The Berlin Wall

Newsweek | Michael Hirsh | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

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The abrupt and miserable end of the socialist experiment--it all happened so fast, with East Germany getting absorbed into West Germany on Oct. 3, 199...

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Remembering The Fall Of The Berlin Wall And Soviet Domination: Commentary

GlobalPost | Posted 11.02.2009 | World

Read More: Communism, Czech, Eastern Europe Communism, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Berlin Wall, Czech Republic, Berlin, World News

I first saw the Berlin Wall in 1971. It was then about 10 years old and was the ugliest human structure I'd ever seen: gray, brutal, pitiless, unyield...

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Ex-leaders mark fall of Berlin Wall

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 10.31.2009 | Home

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Bush Sr, Gorbachev and Kohl reunite in Germany 20 years after the momentous event....

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Nobody Likes Roosevelt Island's Main Street

Curbed | Curbed | Posted 10.27.2009 | Home

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We wind our day down in the Ibiza of the East River, Roosevelt Island, and on its sorrowful and drab Main Street, which blogger Roosevelt Islander ...

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Biography tracks the rise and fame of David Bowie

AP | MICHAEL HILL | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home

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— "Bowie: A Biography" (Crown, 448 pages, $26.99) by Marc Spitz: David Bowie knows what he's singing about when he performs "Changes." After making a big splash in the early 1970s as Ziggy Stardust, he went on to become the Thin White Duke, an artsy Berlin angst rocker, the "straight" Bowie of "Let's Dance" and more recently the distinguished rock elder who goes to fashion events with his model wife, Iman.

The career full of characters obscures the less fantastic, but very interesting, back story of David Jones, a British teen in the '60s who desperately wanted to make it big. He joins some R&B bands, dabbles in acting and mime, changes his last name to Bowie and records a painful-to-listen-to-now single titled "The Laughing Gnome" that seems to channel Alvin and the Chipmunks.

Nothing in particular sticks until he records the 1969 single "Space Oddity." Bowie later goes all-in with his pioneering glam character Ziggy, the one with the screwed up eyes and snow-white tan. Bowie never looks back, never stops changing.

Spitz, a music journalist, does a decent job of tracking Bowie's evolution through copious research and interviews with dozens of people who knew him.

Spitz clearly gets Bowie, and this is an unapologetic fan-boy biography. He is good at analyzing what Bowie accomplished, why it matters and what was likely influencing him at the time. He has insightful things to say about landmark Bowie songs "Life on Mars?" and "Heroes."

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