It would be a shame to leave Berlin without investigating the phenomenon of Ostalgie -- nostalgia for life in the old East Germany.
The deal brings to an end a ten-year dispute over the debts, most of which were originally owed to the old East Germany.
See North Korea and Cuba, or for that matter compare North Korea with South Korea, or the old East Germany with the old West Germany.
This can be experienced first hand at the "Kunst und Nostalgiemarkt", which sells everyday knick-knacks from the old East Germany, and at the DDR museum.
The best newcomer award went to 18-year-old east London MC Chipmunk.
The parents of a 15-year-old East Sussex girl who is believed to have gone to France with a man she knows have urged her to contact them.
On top of that, there are persistent wide differences between pockets of poverty in the old East Germany and the booming South-West of Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg, 20 years after unification.
Opening a debate on the future of the BBC on 3 December 2009, the Conservative former cabinet minister, Lord Fowler, said it was "absurd to draw parallels with the real state-sponsored journalism in countries like the old East Germany".
The remix version, concoted by a hitherto little-known Berlin composer called Bardo Henning, is a 15-minute pot-pourri which mingles the melody of the current national anthem (by Joseph Haydn) with that of the old East German one (by Hanns Eisler).
What will soon be the new Big East does not contain the market star power that the old Big East captured.
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But unlike East Timor a former Portuguese colony these other places are all part of the old Dutch East Indies, out of which Indonesia was born.
Sutiin, a 29-year-old from East Java, has signed a contract testifying that she receives the minimum wage.
In the old Middle East, the Saudi statement would never have been questioned.
"Tegel took us to those places we only could dream of before, " says Wolfgang Andrees, a 71-year-old former East German resident.
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Meanwhile, the poor old Near East seems to have disappeared, along with the second world, though the third world is still with us.
Pop-hotelier Ian Schrager has taken his reputation for over-the-top luxury down a notch with PUBLIC Chicago, which opened in 2011 in the old Ambassador East Hotel building.
When he was a 16-year-old traveling east with his parents on the obligatory college tour (summer 1965), a friend of mine stopped here for the night.
The game kept alive for one more day the old Big East Conference, which has hemorrhaged schools who jumped to join conferences with more lucrative TV-rights contracts.
The old Big East has yet to choose a name, but it could live on for one more game: If Syracuse wins the national semifinal, it has a chance to meet Big East partner Louisville in the national championship game.
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Police investigating the Woolwich attack have also arrested a 42-year-old man in north London and a 46-year-old man in east London on suspicion of involvement in the supply of illegal firearms.
As a matter of novelistic accuracy, however, this area was more likely a stand-in for the old-moneyed East Egg in the novel, while the arriviste nouveau riche estate of Gatsby was probably located across Manhasset Bay in Great Neck (West Egg).
And there is the pride of the Wings, the Old Fort House in East Sandwich, Mass.
One of the subjects is Alex Libby, a twelve-year-old seventh grader at East Middle School, in Sioux City, Iowa.
To the east of Old Cairo, a limestone ridge marks the edge of the Nile valley and the beginning of the desert.
The old Truman Brewery in East London was buzzing yesterday as hundreds of programmers and software engineers jostled with startup founders to look for jobs.
This year women like 34-year-old Nidhi Tandon of East Brunswick, New Jersey will help RC2 make as many as 250 decisions about toys and retail programs.
Emily Adams, who helps care for her 18-year-old grandson Duke in east London, said her local council does not offer any form of short break service.
Staff spotted two broken parts near Old Street Station, east London, on 8 March after a passenger train driver reported water pouring on to the train's roof.
Standing outside the old Motorola plant in East Kilbride, part of the area known as Silicon Glen, there's evidence of tech boom, tech bust and of some "green-shoots".
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