Berlin Wall's Fall (1989)

For Westerners, the center of Berlin suddenly shifted east when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. The geographic heart of the metropolis still lies in the bohemian neighborhood of Kreuzberg, with its big, loft-like apartments and sometimes raucous night life....

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1ST INTERNET ONLY Tune in to our special Internet-only broadcast as Milt presides (live!) over a replay of a classic program.  We begin around 8:30pm with a musical introduction, with the program beginning promptly at 9pm.  Listen only at...

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U.S. troops broke Saddam Hussein's 24-year grip on the Iraqi capital Wednesday as cheering, dancing crowds shouted, "Oh, Iraq!" and, with help from the Marines, toppled a four-story statue of the president, dragging its head in the streets while...

The starring actress is Australian. The script was written by a Pole. Hollywood money financed the production, and Italy provides the backdrop for a German director's newest film. "Heaven," starring Cate Blanchett and produced by Miramax, opened this...

Six weeks ago, George W. Bush was still the new kid on the global block, widely perceived by his peers as a good-old-boy Texan grappling, and sometimes fumbling, with the sophisticated nuances of foreign policy. He was under fire for his controversial...

Pope John Paul II, whose indomitable will and uncompromising belief in human dignity helped bring down communism in Eastern Europe and reshaped Christianity's relationship to Judaism, died today. He was 84. The Polish-born John Paul, indisputably the...

Sgt. Christopher Geiger of Kreidersville, Allen Township, died of an apparent heart attack Wednesday in the service of the military he loved and with the Pennsylvania Army National Guard unit he embraced like his second family. And for the 213th Area...

Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl's wife, Hannelore, was found dead Thursday at the family home in Oggersheim. Letters left for her husband, sons and friends indicated she had taken her own life to escape the pain of a rare illness that made her allergic to...

WASHINGTON -- Four Thursdays ago, without warning, a potentially disastrous event struck the northeastern United States: The electrical power grid abruptly failed. Within moments, millions of Americans shared a single grim thought: Was this a terrorist...

Even if you don't know that Buffalo Soldiers was produced before Sept. 11, 2001, you might be able to guess from watching it. The movie's view of the American military as a loony bin led by fools and fiends doesn't square with the current soldiers-as-...

FT. IRWIN, Calif. — The Army calls it "The Box," a vast battleground in the heart of the inhospitable desert dotted with dusty villages marked up in Arabic graffiti declaring, "Saddam Hussein, the Great Arab." But this desert is the Mojave, not the...