Berlin Wall

Tears and triumphs: how it looked
The Independent on Sunday; 12/27/2009; 387 words; ...end of Ramadan. October: Sri Lankan asylum-seekers hold placards demanding UN protection. November: Fall of the Berlin Wall is celebrated 20 years on with giant dominoes. December: Colombian singer Shakira leaves the Oxford Union after her...

Business and the way of democracy
International Herald Tribune; 12/26/2009; 1077 words; ...continued into the next three decades. Starting with the Polish Solidarity movement and epitomized by the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, democratization swept through the former Soviet bloc. Likewise, today most of Latin America can claim the...

PRESIDENT OBAMA: WORLD FREEDOM DAY
US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 12/25/2009; 620 words; ...today, the Wall came down in Berlin and both a country and a continent...through checkpoints into West Berlin, border restrictions dissolved...common purpose. After the Berlin Wall fell, oppressive regimes across...challenge our world are not walls of cement and iron, but ones...

As Romania’s dictator fell, I saw the bullet holes everywhere ; BUCHAREST TO GLASGOW Maria tells of horror in her home country as people were gunned down
Evening Times; 12/24/2009; 1062 words; ...he could cling to power. His countrymen were aware that the Berlin Wall had come down and that other Communist regimes in eastern Europe...daylight was breaking. We could see bullet-holes in the walls everywhere.” Mihai Motoiu, 41, also from Bucharest...

Speaking volumes New Berlin printer shows off its new technology in $595 book
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 12/24/2009; 797 words; By JOHN SCHMID New Berlin -- There are enough globe-trotters...watch connoisseurs. Sells, based in New Berlin, operates the traditional presses that...controlled high-security room under a wall of monitors that track orders as they...