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Berlin Wall: Artists Repaint Murals Leading Up To 20th Anniversary

GlobalPost | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art, Germany, Foreign Affairs, Berlin Wall Murals, Berlin Wall Anniversary, Berlin Wall, Berlin East Side Gallery, Advocacy, Berlin, World News

An army of artists has assembled along the Berlin Wall on recent summer mornings, shielded by straw hats and baseball caps. Paintbrushes in one hand, ...

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Sex Selling For Less During Downturn

AP | MARY LANE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brothels, Europe, Economic Crisis, Germany, Prositution, Recession, Berlin, Business News

BERLIN — It's past midnight in downtown Berlin, and the prostitutes pace in front of the Hackescher Markt's stores. Signs of a slow economy are ...

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Jack Shaheen: Obama Delivers a Message of Peace to the Muslim World

Christian Avard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Muslim, Barack Obama, Arab World, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Obama Muslims, Middle East Politics, Obama Middle East, Palestinians, Obama Arabs, Middle East Peace, Muslim World, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Arabs, Mideast Peace Process, Middle East, Arab, American Muslims, Palestinian, Israel, Muslims, Obama Middle East Policy, Obama Muslim Smear, Obama Mideast Speech, Muslim, Israel Gaza, Anti-Muslim Bias, Obama Israel, Israeli Arabs, China, Gaza, Berlin, Obama Mideast Trip, World News
Christian Avard

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Obama In Paris, Will Meet Michelle And Kids

AP | MARK S. SMITH | Posted 05.25.2011

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WEIMAR, Germany — President Barack Obama absorbed the stark horrors memorialized at the Buchenwald concentration camp Friday and said the lesson...

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Merkel Goes Off the Deep End

Brett Neely | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Angela Merkel, Inflation, Germany, European Central Bank, Economy, Berlin, World News
Brett Neely

With a tough re-election campaign coming up, Merkel has decided that bashing the ECB could offer a political advantage ahead of European Parliament elections this weekend

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Hitler Color Photographs From Life.com

Huffington Post | Katharine Zaleski | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hitler in Color, Hitler Color Photos, Hitler Life Photos, Adolf Hitler, life.com, Adolph Hitler, Hugo Jaeger, Hitler, Hugo Jaeger Photos Life, Color Hitler Photos Life, Berlin, Munich, Life's Hitler Recently Found Pictures, Hugo Jaeger: Photographer to Hitler, Color Hitler Photographs Huffington Post, Life Photographer Photo Hitler, Life Hitler Color Pictures, New Life Hitler Pictures, Life Hitler Photos, Hitler Pictures, Hitler Color Pictures, World News

Have you ever seen Hitler in color? Probably not. For the first time ever LIFE.com is publishing a color gallery taken by the fuhrer's personal photo...

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Video: Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award Special (Today in History)

SnagFilms | SnagFilms | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Berlin, Beijing-China, China, Home News

Hosted by Tom Brokaw, this primetime special honored both the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing and the fall of the Berlin...

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Why Do So Many Republicans Hate America?

Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tear Down This Wall, Meet the Press, Reagan Berlin, Ronald Reagan, Terrorism, George W. Bush, Dick Durbin, Guantanamo, 9/11, Matthew Alexander, Keith Olbermann, Lindsey Graham, Due Process, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Politics of Fear, Jonathan Alter, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Freedom, Hate US for Our Freedom, General Petraeus, Newt Gingrich, Republicans, Berlin, Torture, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

I say that Cheney and Gingrich don't love America because they don't seem to care about American values as they have traditionally been viewed.

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Pfeiffer Returns to Period Drama in Frears' Cheri Trailer

Dygest.net Green | Dygest.net | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Berlin, Paris-France, France, Home News

I know that this is not the first time in the past few years that we have seen a period film but the reunion of Michelle Pfeiffer and Director Step...

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Auschwitz Plans Put On Display In Berlin

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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BERLIN — Architectural plans for the Nazi death camp Auschwitz that were discovered in Berlin last year go on public display in the German capit...

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Dowd's Snark Shoots Up, Down

Nancy Kruh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, The Clintons, David Denby, Obama Berlin, Bill Clinton, Snarkiness, John McCain, Deval Patrick, Writing, Books, George W. Bush, The New York Times, Maureen Dowd, Obama Berlin Speech, Clintons, Journalism, Eliot Spitzer, Barack Obama, Obama Deval Patrick, Snark, Barack Obama Deval Patrick, Dan Quayle, Sarah Palin, John Edwards, New York Times, Iraq, Berlin, Media News
Nancy Kruh

In his book, Snark David Denby describes Maureen Dowd as "essentially sour and without hope," but my evidence, I believe, proves him wrong.

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R.I.P. Kebab King, Thank You for Your Doner Kebab

David Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Turkey, Mahmut Aygün, Dondurmek, Doner Kebab, Lamb and Spices, Drunk Food, Drinking, Berlin, Kebab King, Kebab, Style News
David Weiner

Honestly, I had no idea who Mahmut Ayg�n was or that there even was a "Kebab King," yet now I mourn his death tremendously. After all, this is the man who invented the "doner kebab."

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Tacheles: Bohemian Berlin's Coolest Landmark To Be Sold Off To The Highest Bidder

The Independent | Tony Paterson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tacheles, Berlin Bohemia Coop, Tacheles Auction, East Berlin, Berlin Bohemia, East Germany, Germany, Mitte District, Europe, World War II, Tacheles Sale, Berlin, World News

The building is Berlin's counter- culture temple - a vast graffiti-smeared and bomb-damaged former department store that boasts two bars, a restaurant...

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Berlin Memorial To Gay Victims Of Nazis Vandalized

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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BERLIN — Berlin's memorial to gay victims of the Nazis has been vandalized for the second time in four months. Berlin police say a window on th...

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Jewish Estate Shows 2 Paintings Originally Stolen By The Nazis

AP | MELISSA EDDY | Posted 05.25.2011

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BERLIN — Two paintings that the Nazis forced a Jewish art dealer to sell off in the 1930s have been returned to his estate, and its heirs said W...

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Eleven Other Countries with Big Auto Industry Problems

Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Renault, Chrysler, France, Suv, Cars, Spain, Prague, Ford, London, Madrid, Liverpool, General Motors, Japanese Cars, Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Brussels, Zaragoza, Asia, Belgium, Hungary, Sweden, Czech Republic, Berlin, Saabs, Renault Nissan, Member of Parliament, Gm, Volvo, British, Angela Merkel, Jeep, Japan, Europe, Opel, China, Antwerp, Business News
Steve Parker

Here's some of what's happening, mostly with GM, in Europe and Asia, two markets outside the U.S. hit hardest by the slowing automobile business.

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View From Europe: Hillary Would Be Great As Madame Secretary

Steve Kettmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Secretary of State, Afghanistan, France, Germany, Obama's Cabinet, Obama, Europe, Paris, Hillary Clinton, Berlin, Obama Cabinet, Obama Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Clinton Secretary of State, Politics News
Steve Kettmann

choice of Hillary Clinton to be his Secretary of State would represent a great show of respect to our allies that he wants the best available person to handle the job of being his top diplomat.

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Born In The U.S.A. - Expats Look Back

Stefan Sirucek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Young Voters, Obama Berlin, Obama, Expats, America, 2008 Election, Obama Reaction Abroad, Berlin, Politics News
Stefan Sirucek

If America is indeed on the path to being cool again we might see a wave of this sort of voluntary repatriation.

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How Obama Can Finally Break Free in the Polls: Hillary

Jackson Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Opinion Dynamics, Obama-Clinton, Mccain-Romney, Hillary, Berlin, Fox News, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Hillary Clinton, Mccain, Gallup Daily Tracking Poll, Barack Obama, Politics News
Jackson Williams

The final piece to the puzzle may well be adding Clinton's populist economic message to Obama's call for "change we can believe in."

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Virtual Obama, Virtual JFK

Norman MacAfee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Eisenhower, Koji Masutani, Vietnam, Berlin, Laos, James Blight, Documentary Film, Obama, Lbj, Jfk, Cuba, Barack Obama, Politics News
Norman MacAfee

I urge you to see a new film, Virtual JFK: Vietnam, If Kennedy Had Lived, by Koji Masutani, now at the Film Forum in New York through September 30.

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Shoes Steal The Shows: Spring 2009's Walk On The Wild Side (SLIDESHOW)

The Huffington Post | Willow Lindley | Posted 05.25.2011

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With Spring 2009 trends stomping down runways worldwide it seems designers from Madrid to London to Paris to Milan to New York are complimenting, or e...

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American Embassy in Berlin Misuses September 11th Ceremony

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Germany, September 11th, Berlin, Politics News
Jacob Heilbrunn

As one of Germany's leading journalists reports, the embassy will hold a memorial ceremony for September 11th together with the Jewish Community of Berlin.

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Obama: The Change Candidate Abroad, Too

Paul Hunt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Europe, Obama Foreign Policy, Berlin Speech, Berlin, Obama Berlin Speech, Obama, Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, Non-American, Cynicism, Home News
Paul Hunt

Obama's candidacy has generated effective grassroots initiatives in the States and it might well do the same on this side of the Atlantic, which would be a major change in many European states.

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Obama in Berlin: Finding the Right Tone

Susan Neiman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alleged Swooning, Europe, Obama in Germany, Irony, Berlin, Obama in Europe, Obama, Media, Republican Ads, Barack Obama, Obama's Berlin Speech, America, Obama Love, Obama Berlin Speech Great, Obama Berlin Speech, Politics News
Susan Neiman

In Berlin, Obama gave his hearers hope, not hysteria -- the hope for an America that could not only work with European nations, but even be a model for them.

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Do Americans Think - Or Just Act?

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Columnist, French, Conscious, Berlin, Obama, Linguist, Future, Verb, Past, Fareed Zakaria, Bush, Bill Kristol, Un, Global Public Square, Poop, Nyt, Who Killed Daniel Pearl, 18th Century, Josef Joffe, Think, Act, Magazine, Unconscious, Language, Cnn, Herr Spörl, Conditional, Tense, Bernard-Henri Levy, Present, Die Zeit, German, Politics News
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

What I'm really saying is Americans are unconscious. You can see it in the verbs. This isn't a value judgment, I am just intrigued by what gets in and...

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