This touched my mountain-made, agrarian heart in an oddly profound way - it seems silly in translation - as I was riding the iron horse from one city to another this afternoon. Again from the DAAD Letter: ( Dolmens and the ancestors. )

NYT Editorial: Wrongheaded Priorities for Berlin's Memorial PlanningThis may be the stupidest bit of Berlin's whole post-Wall city planning: tearing down the 30-year-old golden box that was the GDR's multi-functional Palace of the Republic (in addition to major government offices, it housed swimming pools, a gym, and other recreation centers). It ( Read more... )

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