Desde Berlin

• Berlin Noir Among the Ruins

Bernie Gunther is always being beaten up. By the Germans, by the French, by the Russians and by the Americans. Even for a cop from Berlin before and during World War II, his record as a human punching bag warrants the philosophy he expresses in the early pages of this bleak thriller: "You're born alone and you die alone and the rest of the time, you're on your own.

• The Washington Times
• June 03, 2011

• Swidler & Berlin v. United States, 524 U.S. 399 (1998)

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Live From Sabres-Kings in Berlin

BERLIN, Germany -- Wow. I can use a ton of words to describe Berlin. Breathtaking. Jaw- dropping. Eye-popping. Inspiring. The list goes on and on and on, but it comes back to one word:

• Buffalo News
• October 12, 2011

• Berlin City Dealers Offer Free Inspections

It may be true, as the old saying goes, that there is no such thing as a free lunch, but thanks to a new program by the Berlin City Auto Group there definitely are free snacks and automotive state safety inspections. According to Berlin City Vice President Yegor Malinovskii, the auto group last November began offering free Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont safety inspections to anyone who had purchased a car from one of its five dealerships in those states.

• Portland Press Herald
• April 22, 2011

• VIP of Berlin, LLC v. Town of Berlin, (2nd Cir. 2010)

• Federal Circuits

• Heavy Lifting for Berlin

The Heroism and Triumph of the Berlin Airlift, June 1948-May 1949 By Richard Reeves (SIMON & SCHUSTER, 316 PAGES, $28) Reviewed by Joseph A. Harriss GENERAL LUCIUS DUBIGNON CLAY, West Point '18, descendent of Senator Henry (the Great Pacificator) Clay, commander in chief of U.S. forces in Europe and military governor of the American Zone in Germany, had won his point. Faced with Josef Stalin's bald move to annex the city by forcing the Allies out, President Harry Truman's senior national security advisers, including Secretary of State George Marshall and Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, strongly counseled withdrawing Allied troops and leaving the city to the tender mercies of the Red Army. EVEN WITH PLANES taking off and landing every three minutes, flight crews and air traff...

• American Spectator, The
• Vol. 43 Nbr. 3, April 2010

• No Paved Way for Naming Berlin Street After Reagan

n this once-divided city where Ronald Reagan famously challenged the Soviet Union to "tear down this wall," a proposal to rename a public square or street in his honor has sparked heated debate over the U.S. president's role in Germany's recent past. Ahead of the Feb. 6 centennial of Reagan's birth, German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg surprised many here when he called on Berlin to pay tribute to the former U.S. president by renaming a square "Ronald-Reagan-Platz.

• The Washington Times
• March 01, 2011

• Jfk's Berlin Blunder

WASHINGTON Fifty years ago, a metaphor became concrete. Beginning on Aug. 13, 1961, along West Berlin's 27-mile border, the Iron Curtain became tangible in a wall of precast slabs of concrete. It came down 22 years ago. But the story of how it rose, as told in Frederick Kempe's book "Berlin 1961," compels an unflattering assessment of John Kennedy. His serial blunders that year made it the most incompetent first year of any presidency.

• Tribune - Review / Pittsburgh Tribune - Review
• August 14, 2011

• ; Berlin Wall Divided a City and Nation 50 Years Ago

We're all children of our histories. Some of us become victims, others reactors and rebels. Some of us just keep putting one foot in front of the other. Commemorations, celebrations and memorials become important, documenting what is, what was and what might have been. Germany commemorates the 50th anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall this week. That wall wasn't as lengthy as the Great Wall of China, nor did it have the mythic significance of the wall that Joshua's trumpet brought down at Jericho. But the Berlin Wall marks a significant milestone in the history of the Cold War, when a supposedly civilized nation locked in its people and described the barrier, in Orwellian rhetoric every government bureaucrat could envy, as an "anti-fascist protection rampart.

• The Washington Times
• August 11, 2011

• Berlín, Donde Pasado Y Futuro Se Encuentran

Tan ambigua como es, esta ciudad se encuentra en un continuo proceso de reconstrucción y conservación a la vez. Esto es evidente cuando se carmina por el área Este y suroeste, donde se encuentra el famoso Berliner Dom, la imponente catedral con su inconfundible cúpula de color turquesa que se erige sobre el río Spree, dejando ver las huellas de los daños severos que sufrió durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, como los huecos de balas en sus columnas y el humo negro impregnado en sus paredes. A unas cuantas cuadras se puede llegar a pie a Gendarmenmarkt, considerada una de las plazas más bellas de Europa, donde lo que más llama la atención es ver dos iglesias idénticas, una frente a la otra, el Französischer Dom y el Deutscher Dom, mejor conocidas como el Domo Francés y el Domo Alemán; act...

... Mundial, Berlín fue la capital de Alemania desde 1871, dejó de serlo en 1945 para ser nombrada nue...

• La Opinión; Los Angeles, Calif.
• August 11, 2009