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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2009
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 U2's Berlin Show Walled Off 

Ticketless fans will need to scale these city walls to peek

Nov 5, 09 7:06 AM CST

 Asterix, France's Favorite 
 Comic Gaul, Hits 50 

Paris awash with celebrations of the indomitable Gaul

Oct 25, 09 1:04 PM CDT

 Oktoberfest 
 Hikes Security 
 After al-Qaeda 
 Warnings 



Beer tents busy despite terror group's threats

Sep 30, 09 3:18 AM CDT
GERMAN VOTE


 Merkel Wins 
 Re-Election, 
 New Coalition 

Germany's chancellor will form new bloc with center-right

Sep 27, 09 12:28 PM CDT

 In Germany, Baby 
 Rhino Is the New Knut 

Baby rhinoceros rejected by its mother will be raised by humans

Sep 23, 09 9:19 AM CDT

German Officer May Have Misled US Fighters in Civilian Disaster

Gave false info to pilots in Afghan tanker strike

Sep 21, 09 7:08 AM CDT

 In Legal Gray Zone, 
 Europeans Harvest 
 Body Parts for US 

Ukrainian company accused of gutting bodies illegally

Aug 30, 09 6:09 PM CDT

 'Roo On the Lam in Germany 


Aug 26, 09 3:32 AM CDT

 High-Tech Mug Keeps 
 Coffee Just Right 

Mug absorbs heat, then releases it to maintain perfect temperature

Aug 20, 09 11:02 AM CDT

Climate Change Shrinks Fish in Europe

Smaller creatures reproduce less, provide less food for predators

Jul 21, 09 1:32 PM CDT

 German Thief Caught With 
 1,000 Pairs of Underwear 

Police suspect man may be behind string of undie thefts

Jul 21, 09 8:00 AM CDT

 Razors Snip Pubes 
 in Hair-Raising Trend 

More men opting for 'back, crack, and sack'

Jul 18, 09 5:52 PM CDT

 Knut Will Stay in Berlin 


Jul 8, 09 4:14 PM CDT
INTERVIEW

Obama Can Lead a Peaceful World: Kissinger

Former secretary of state admires president's early moves

Jul 7, 09 12:18 PM CDT

Poll: Half of East Germans Positive on Communism

Nostalgic Germans believe life was better before the Berlin Wall came down

Jul 4, 09 7:20 AM CDT
Interview

Aliens May Be Watching
Our Soaps: Expert 



Life 'definitely' out there, expert says, but very hard to find

Jun 13, 09 6:29 PM CDT

 This Woman 
 May Take Down 
 Ahmadinejad 

Wife of reformist candidate strikes a blow in Iran

Jun 11, 09 5:45 AM CDT

Berlin Corpse May Be Slain Leftist Hero

Doc thinks body in Berlin hospital cellar is 'Red Rosa' Luxemburg

May 29, 09 2:55 PM CDT


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Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

Galleon Scandal: Shocked, Shocked by Insider Trading

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Nov 6, 09 | 9:26 AM BY Michael Wolff

How is it that we get a major insider trading scandal every two decades or so? The last big one, which ultimately ensnarled Michael Milken, the legendary junk bond king, happened in the late eighties. The current one, with a mass of arrests yesterday, threatens the hedge fund industry. It seems reasonable to assume from the intermittent decades of prosecution that this particular sort of financial larceny is quite a rare bird and when it rears its head the Feds pounce.... More »

Rupert Murdoch Is Mad but Cute

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Nov 5, 09 | 8:41 AM BY Michael Wolff

The Wall Street Journal was a great paper. It is still a pretty great paper but it is not the great Wall Street Journal.... More »

Skype Lives!

15
Nov 4, 09 | 8:33 AM BY Michael Wolff

I follow entrepreneurial dramas the way other people follow sports (did somebody win the World Series?). In these comedies, tragedies,... More »

Why the GOP Will Rise Again

25
Nov 3, 09 | 9:11 AM BY Michael Wolff

The strange business that is going on in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, which occupies some other universe than the one... More »

Sarah Palin and Levi Johnston: How They Took America

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Nov 2, 09 | 8:40 AM BY Michael Wolff

Of all the outcomes of the 2008 presidential election, the strangest, beyond the rise of Sarah Palin herself, is the success of Levi Johnston.... More »

Why the Media Is Taking So Long to Die

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Oct 30, 09 | 9:21 AM BY Michael Wolff

I participated the other night in an oddly formal, anglophilic, Oxford-style, for-and-against-the-proposition debate on the topic of (you... More »

How the Internet Got Lost and Why Google’s GPS Won’t Show Us the Way Out

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Oct 29, 09 | 8:58 AM BY Michael Wolff

I had lunch yesterday with my old friend and former colleague, Chip Bayers, who, 15 years ago this week, after having left my fledgling... More »

Pot Will Save Us

39
Oct 28, 09 | 11:10 AM BY Michael Wolff

Wow. Pot. Just like that, on its way to being legalized. Well, just like that after 50 years or so. In order to save itself from financial... More »

Is Obama a Sleaze?

31
Oct 27, 09 | 8:58 AM BY Michael Wolff

So it turns out there’s a reason the president hasn’t wrapped up health care or Iraq, figured out Afghanistan, closed Guantanamo,... More »

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