As the Berlin Wall collapsed Angela Merkel stayed cool in the sauna
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
German Chancellor Angela Merkel displayed enviable sangfroid in 1989 says Jemima Lewis.
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As the Berlin Wall collapsed Angela Merkel...
www.widyanto.tk (Free subscription) | yesterday
As the Berlin Wall collapsed Angela Merkel stayed cool in the sauna : German Chancellor Angela Merkel displayed.. http://bit.ly/1rnrad
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Young Angela Merkel Saunas as Berlin Wall Falls
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A young East German physicist named Angela Merkel was on her way home from her weekly trip to the sauna and a beer with a friend, when she was swept up in the ecstatic crowds crossing the border at Bornholmer Street on the night of Novenber 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell. Now, as chancellor of a reunited Germany, Mrs. Merkel is presiding over a series of events commemorating the 20th anniversary...
- Merkel took a sauna while Berlin Wall fell - The Guardian
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Miliband met with Merkel over weekend to discuss EU job
Politics.co.uk (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
David Miliband met with Angela Merkel and representatives of the European parliament's centre-left grouping last weekend to discuss taking the foreign secretary job in Brussels, politics.co.uk can reveal.
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Angela Merkel: I took a sauna while Berlin Wall fell
The Cult of the Dead Fish (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Pragmatic German chancellor reveals that she stuck to weekly routine despite momentous events in 1989 One of the most important events in 20th-century history may have been taking place around her, but that did not stop Angela Merkel from honouring a weekly appointment in the steam room. On the night of 9 November 1989, crowds of ecstatic East Germans poured through the newly opened border in Berlin...
- Merkel took a sauna while Berlin Wall fell - The Guardian
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Angela Merkel preferred scheduled sauna bath to watching Berlin Wall fall!
Timpu (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Berlin, Nov. 6 (ANI): German Chancellor Angela Merkel has revealed that she was not part of the frenzied East German crowd that poured through the newly opened border to witness the historic fall of the Berlin wall, instead [...]
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Clinton leaves for Europe, Asia
France24 (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday left for Europe and Asia largely to consult with US partners on curbing North Korea's and Iran's nuclear ambitions as well as on stabilizing Afghanistan. A plane carrying Clinton and her aides took off from Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington at about 00:15 am (0515 GMT). The chief US diplomat was to give a speech in Berlin on Sunday before joining...
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ELLIS WASHINGTON OP-ED: Why Obama Can't Go To Berlin
Booker Rising (Free subscription) | yesterday
The political science professor and conservative Republican opines about why U.S. President Barack Obama turned down German Chancellor Angela Merkel's personal invitation to attend the 20th anniversary celebration of the Berlin Wall's fall : "Three American statesmen made trips to deliver historical speeches in Berlin: 1) JFK's 'Ich bin ein Berliner' [I am a Berliner] speech in 1963, 2) Ronald...
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With the Berlin Wall Just a Memory, German Divisions Fade - New York Times
Google News - Top Stories (Free subscription) | yesterday
Reuters India With the Berlin Wall Just a Memory, German Divisions Fade New York Times BERLIN — “The Quiz of the Germans,” a lighthearted entry amid a crush of serious examinations of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, pitted three West German celebrities seated behind the sloping hood of an old ... Giant dominoes form tribute to Berlin Wall's fall The Associated...
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Re-Writing History 101 Minions in the attack...
The Lair of the Catholic Cavemen (Free subscription) | yesterday
Re-Writing History 101 Minions in the attack mode Scott Whitlock over at NewsBusters.org nails Newsweek to the wall... as they so richly deserve. Here's some of the article; Newsweek.com Skips Obama’s Snub of Berlin Wall, Pretends He’s Already Been There A Newsweek.com article on Tuesday celebrated historic speeches by U.S. Presidents at the Berlin Wall, somehow ignoring the fact that Barack...
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Why Obama can't go to Berlin
Another Pundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
Why Obama can't go to Berlin BY: Ellis Washington Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! ~ Ronald Reagan Three American statesmen made trips to deliver historical speeches in Berlin: 1) JFK's "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in 1963, 2) Ronald Reagan's "Tear down this wall!" speech in 1987, and 3) Barack Obama's 2009 non-speech speech which in a revelatory article by National Review's...
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November 9, 1989 was 'luckiest day'of German history, says Merkel
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Berlin - German Chancellor Angela Merkel gave a personal account of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, which she called the luckiest day of recent German history, in a video broadcast released Saturday. The chancellor, who grew up in ...
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The need to fail at Copenhagen
Robert Kyriakides's Weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
“It is realistic to say that in Copenhagen we will not be able to conclude a treaty,” said Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany recently. She is right to be realistic. Should we be depressed by her pessimism? I do not think so. A climate change treaty concluded in the next few months would hardly be [...]
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Fisking Hari
Working Class Tory (Free subscription) | yesterday
Johann Hari had a terrible piece in the Independent yesterday. It was so bad I'm going to paste a large chunk of it and object to/correct it in red. Here we go: Of course, the most consequential policies so far cover the economy, where Cameron is promoting a fringe philosophy rejected by every other elected government. Most economists believe that when private spending collapses, the Government has...
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The Pentagon Sewer Monster Is Watching You, And Joe Wilson Is Hired As A Male Escort
Wonkette (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Hot date! Southern gentleman and rhetorician REP. JOE WILSON (R-SC) has been given the honor of escorting German Chancellor-Frau ANGELA MERKEL to the 20th annual Berlin Wall Ball. But will Joe be ready for the big night? Where will he find a corsage that compliments Angela’s captivating blue eyes? And can he trust the ILLEGAL [...]