Berlin Wall's Fall (1989)

Season 2’s “Chuck Versus the Seduction” was one of my favorite episodes of that season and maybe one of the best episodes “Chuck” has ever done. The sense of fun that emanated from that episode helped make the second season.....

ReligionLink raises the question about the democratic upraising in Egypt is a reenactment of Iran in the 1970s that deposed the shah, but replaced him with a more fundamentalist Islamic government. Or is this the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 that...

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State Rep. Maria Sachs, D-Delray Beach, is traveling to Berlin Monday evening to attend the 10th Annual Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, which convenes this week to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. In an......

In 1982, the leftist intellectual journal Semiotext(e) published the German Issue, more than 300 pages dedicated to the then-split nation. Now, on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the journal is reissuing it with two new......

Twenty years ago today, the Berlin Wall fell, marking the unofficial end of the Cold War. The wall had gone up in the dead of night on Sunday, Aug. 13, 1961, when East German soldiers closed the border to West......

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If awards from your peers mean the most, LACMA curator Stephanie Barron is having a significantly good day. Barron has received top honors from the Assn. of Art Museum Curators, which has a 900-plus membership, for her exhibition "Art of......