One was the archetypal military strongman, intent on maintaining the social order and saving his country from "catastrophe." The other was a charismatic shipyard electrician and trade union leader who was just as determined to lead his countrymen to freedom.
Six days before the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, German Chancellor Angela Merkel addressed a joint meeting of Congress on Tuesday and challenged U.S. lawmakers to tear down other walls.
While the world remembers the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, one frontier of the Cold War remains intact; the demilitarized zone that separates North and South Korea.
The much-maligned symbol of motoring in Communist East Germany, the Trabant, is set to make an unlikely comeback as a concept car at this year's International Motor Show in Frankfurt.
Golf was considered a sport of the capitalist elite and banned in Eastern Europe under the rule of communist regimes -- but in the 20 years since the Berlin Wall has fallen there has been a renaissance of the game in the region.
An emotional Nancy Reagan helped unveil a statue of her late husband, President Reagan, on Wednesday, calling the 7-foot figure "a wonderful likeness."
One was the archetypal military strongman, intent on maintaining the social order and saving his country from "catastrophe." The other was a charismatic shipyard electrician and trade union leader who was just as determined to lead his countrymen to freedom.
Six days before the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, German Chancellor Angela Merkel addressed a joint meeting of Congress on Tuesday and challenged U.S. lawmakers to tear down other walls.
While the world remembers the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, one frontier of the Cold War remains intact; the demilitarized zone that separates North and South Korea.
The much-maligned symbol of motoring in Communist East Germany, the Trabant, is set to make an unlikely comeback as a concept car at this year's International Motor Show in Frankfurt.
Golf was considered a sport of the capitalist elite and banned in Eastern Europe under the rule of communist regimes -- but in the 20 years since the Berlin Wall has fallen there has been a renaissance of the game in the region.
An emotional Nancy Reagan helped unveil a statue of her late husband, President Reagan, on Wednesday, calling the 7-foot figure "a wonderful likeness."
Richard Blystone was CNN's senior correspondent in Europe throughout 1989, witnessing and reporting on the momentous events of that year from the first protests in the communist Eastern Bloc to the fall of the Berlin Wall and revolution in Romania.
The April 2 meeting in London of the major world economies known as the G-20 could be the most important global economic gathering since 1944, when the Bretton Woods conference reshaped the old order near the end of World War II.
An apartment left untouched since before the fall of the Berlin Wall has been discovered by a developer in the eastern German city of Leipzig, German media reports said Thursday.
On Sunday morning, I boarded a bus in Brooklyn with a group of approximately 40 citizens from New York, all African-American, each of whom would not have missed for almost anything the inauguration of President Barack Obama.
Berlin is a city that exists in the tension between its once glorious, and often dark, past and its relentless drive to reinvent itself. This becomes evident if you take the time to explore the city on foot.
The night the Berlin Wall fell, I was standing by a highway heading out of East Germany, asking people why they were going west. A man's one-word answer still sticks in my mind: "Camaro."
Standing before a massive crowd in a city that once symbolized division, Sen. Barack Obama warned Thursday about the dangers of allowing new walls to come between the United States and its allies.
It's been a long, long time since the last "last" time: When Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones Jr. rode off into the sunset in May 1989, courtesy of "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," the Berlin Wall was still standing, George H.W. Bush was only four months into his presidency, and Harrison Ford was just a young whippersnapper of 46.
History buffs seeking the last vestiges of the iconic wall no longer have to consult old maps or guidebooks. A new multimedia guide offers individualized walking tours connecting the key points where the 103-mile barrier once separated west from east
Every great leader has a crucible - a critical moment that will either make or break a career. For Muhtar Kent, who has emerged as the next CEO of Coca-Cola, that key test came nearly two decades ago when the Berlin Wall fell and major markets suddenly opened for Western-based businesses.
Alan Greenspan's memoir arrives with remarkable timing for two reasons. One is that at a time like this, with financial markets in upheaval, we yearn for guidance from the oracle who presided over 18 years of relative peace and prosperity in the U.S. economy.
Italy's parliament has elected a new president, which will bring Romano Prodi one step closer to forming a new government and taking the helm as prime minister.
Meaningless elections, where the outcome is decided in advance, fell out of favor after the collapse of the Berlin Wall -- except in corporate America.
The French and Germans consider the fall of the Berlin Wall to have done more to change the world in the last 25 years than the September 11 attacks on the U.S., according to a poll conducted for CNN to mark the 25th anniversary of the launch of the news channel.
Since you wrote The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People back in 1989, the book and its various spinoffs have sold more than 15 million copies. Pardon us for thinking this, but are you milking this ...
A wildfire fueled by gusts of wind over drought-parched land burned just four miles from the ranch that served as former President Ronald Reagan's western White House, but firefighters expect it to be contained within two days and not threaten the ranch unless there is an unexpected shift in the weather, a Santa Barbara County fire official said.
Fueled by gusts of wind over drought-parched land Sunday, a wildfire approached the ranch that served as President Ronald Reagan's western White House in the 1980s, said fire officials in Santa Barbara County, California.
One man, alone and unarmed, boldly shuffles to confront a column of tanks, climbs atop one, then berates its occupants. For many, this image defined the tumultuous 1989 clash between Chinese armed forces and anti-government protesters.
Kim Jong Il has been portrayed as everything from a nuclear-armed egomaniac, to a cognac-swilling playboy with a bouffant hairdo, to a smart and skilled political player.
--Spamkiller 2.87; $29.95 No news is good news, but no spam? That's like the Berlin Wall coming down. Built-in filters block the bulk of bulk e-mail, but you'll have to do some tweaking to get 'em ...
From hippies to yuppies Americans always tighten their purse strings when uncertainty lurks. What gives us confidence in the economy and what rattles our nerves? Richard Curtin himself isn't always...
The phrase "enemies of capitalism" is one the post-war generations grew up with, but even during the bitterest of the Cold War years it never seemed to be much more than an ideological handle, a co...
A while back various versions of a fake European Commission document began circulating via e-mail. The memorandum argued that once a common European currency had been established, the obvious next ...
Ever since the Berlin Wall came down, people have been talking about the possibility of making big money in Eastern Europe. Now at least some investors are. A little-known mutual fund, Vontobel Eas...
The world has been riding a monetary tiger for the past 20 years. For the first time in history, money has been cut loose from its traditional anchors of gold and silver, and the exchange values of...
Wilkommen to language school. Sorry about the crowd, but this industry is booming. Berlitz, which leads the field in teaching foreign tongues to executives, reports business enrollments shot up 49%...
In a famous 1968 essay, ''The Tragedy of the Commons,'' philosopher, ecologist, and first-class gadfly Garrett Hardin explained to a then skeptical world why commonly owned economic resources must ...
Sony, which laid down $60 million for a seven-acre parcel of wasteland near where the Berlin Wall used to stand -- and not far from the site of Hitler's bunker -- is unhappy with the city of Berlin...
West Germans just loved those East German Trabants when the pollution-spilling cars first swarmed across the border after the Berlin Wall came down. Some onlookers even bestowed friendly pats on th...
As disarmament spread and the Berlin Wall fell, General Dynamics never got woozy from the ether of peace. ''We decided to stick to what we know and do best,'' then-CEO Stanley C. Pace told sharehol...
Ten months of fiscal austerity may not have made Poland paradise, but it has noticeably improved the lives of 38 million Poles. Though real wages have dropped 40%, shop shelves now sag with consume...
This could be the best time to buy into Germany Inc. The stock euphoria sparked by the breaching of the Berlin Wall is long gone. The true costs of reunification and the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait ha...
''Look out there,'' says Dieter Richter, pointing to a hill that overlooks the quiet town of Weimar, East Germany. ''That's a Soviet Army garrison that houses about 15,000 troops.'' Eyes rivet left...
One needn't be a polyglot to appreciate the investment volte-face that's taken place since the Berlin Wall fell last Nov. 9. Over the first 10 months of 1989, indexes compiled by Morgan Stanley sho...
The decision to permit the destruction of the Berlin Wall instantly swelled the ranks of capitalism: it turned every Berliner with a hammer and a satchel into an entrepreneur. Pieces of the wall we...
The amazing images of East and West Germans dancing together on the Berlin Wall and, later, of President Bush and Soviet leader Gorbachev holding a cheerful joint press conference on Malta raised h...
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