A Cold War anniversary reminds us not to take history for granted
| 7:00 AM Nov 4, 2009
Next week the world will mark the fall of the Berlin Wall, which took place 20 years ago. It happens that I was there at the time. I think of it as one of the most memorable events I’ve covered in a long newspaper life, though it is not unalloyed. It instructs that in our ...
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