Though the proposed solar panels were eliminated, the roof of the circular building cantilevers out to shade the east wall of glass.
The blue notebooks that neatly lined the south wall of my room were reserved for "Maps of People Doing Things, " as opposed to the green notebooks on the east wall, which contained zoological, geological, and topographical maps, or the red notebooks on the west wall, which was where I mapped out insect anatomy in case my mother, Dr. Clair Linneaker Spivet, ever called upon my services.
Anyone who sue for patent infringement must be from the east coast or Wall Street.
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It is as if the speed and magnitude of the changes to East Germans' lives after the fall of the Berlin Wall left some East Berliners longing for the certainties of the old days.
Calling the Soviet Union an "evil empire" and demanding that Mikhail Gorbachev "tear down" the wall separating East and West Germany, Reagan advanced a vision of the Cold War that found considerable support.
No single wall separates East and West.
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One cousin will be living in the west side, and one will be living on the east side, and the wall just will come in between, and it's just like a few miles between them.
The East Side Gallery was created in 1990, when artists from around the world painted more than 100 works on the part of the inner wall that kept East Germans from crossing into the security zone.
Soviet boss Mikhail Gorbachev faced a stark choice--give the go-ahead for murderous repression in East Germany or tear down the Wall.
Guards returned to their prison-like towers, East German border guards patrolled the wall, and visitors to "Checkpoint Charlie" still had to present documents to reach the other side.
After pulling it off the wall at the Upper East Side gallery, he stashed it in a shopping bag and flew with it back to Athens, authorities said.
Not so Karin, who knew people who had found themselves locked in a communist empire simply because they happened to be on the wrong side of the Wall the night the East German leader, Walter Ulbricht, ordered its erection.
In addition we should forcefully advocate the kind of intervention that ultimately brought down the Berlin Wall in 1989: East Germany's neighbors, particularly Czechoslovakia and Hungary, made it clear that East Germans could use their countries as transit points to get to West Germany.
He was the last East German known killed because of the Wall.
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When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 and East and West Germany were finally united in 1990, millions tuned in each night to coverage that spanned nearly a year.
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She could be very wrong as well as right: She insisted after the fall of the Berlin Wall that an attempt to unite East and West Germany was doomed to failure.
After the announcement, thousands of people in East Berlin immediately flooded the checkpoints at the Berlin Wall, demanding entry into West Berlin.
He made a historic apology for the wrongs done to Jews by Catholics over the centuries, and visited the Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem and the Western Wall on his trip to the Middle East in 2000.
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She grew up under Communist rule in East Germany, back when Berlin was divided by the wall.
And it is true that East Berliners were mocked by "Wessies" when the wall came down because they knew nothing about fancy food.
Even revolutionary actions that look spontaneous, like the demonstrations in East Germany that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall, are, at core, strong-tie phenomena.
Situated in what used to be East Berlin, when the city was divided by the wall, the building stretches over 1250sq m (13, 455sq ft) and houses a theatre, cinema, restaurant, as well as a maze of galleries and workshop areas.
The fall of the wall was a kind of year zero for Berlin and was followed by a wave of optimism, illustrated by the murals from that era at the East Side Gallery (the longest section of the Berlin wall still standing), but the integration of the relatively impoverished eastern section hasn't been easy and is an ongoing process.
The wall, and the creeping militaristion of life in East Jerusalem, will bring people there to side with terror.
In 1962, Peter Fechter, 18, was shot by East German guards as he attempted to flee across the Berlin Wall.
After the wall fell a second wave ensued, lured by east Berlin's vacant housing and a breakdown of police authority.
The Red Army Faction went out of business when the Berlin Wall came down and it lost its sanctuary in East Germany.
In TriBeCa, Terroir (24 Harrison St, near Greenwich Street, www.wineisterroir.com) is the sister of a much-loved hole-in-wall wine bar of the same name in the East Village.
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Standing at the Berlin Wall in 1987, he looked over to the east and, struck by its drabness and emptiness, knew that the system behind it was evil.
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