Berlin Commemorates Fall of Berlin Wall, 20 Years Later
The Berlin Wall separated East and West Berlin, ensuring that capitalist and democratic West Berlin remained surrounded on all sides by the communist German Democratic Republic, where a permanent state of martial law kept millions prisoner for decades. West Germany was forced to move its seat of government to Bonn, to protect against a potential hostile siege from the East German regime, strongly backed by the Soviet Union. But on 9 November 1989, a spreading movement of ground-up resistance and reform climaxed in what seemed like the sudden unraveling of an empire that covered half the continent.
House Passes Health Bill 220 to 215
At 10:59 pm Saturday evening, a 15-minute vote was called. Members of the House were then to vote yea or nay by electronic device. By 11:01 pm, the vote was 197 to 184 and moving quickly. The vote tally will not be final until the Speaker drops the gavel to close the vote. By 11:03 pm, 36 Democrats had voted against the measure, making the special Saturday vote a case of high legislative drama.
Naufragios Vol. 1, No. 2: La experiencia como adivinanza
El ser humano es una adivinanza. El lenguaje es un universo de incontables adivinanzas. El proyecto de una revista es una adivinanza. La duda central tiene que ser: adivinanza de qué, producto de qué, con qué fin, y por qué ese fin. Los límites de un género literario, ¿en qué consisten? ¿No puede lo textual ser también visual, lo prosaico lírico y lo lírico fundamentado en luminosos prosaísmos particulares?
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