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20 Years Ago: 6 Months That Changed The World
Next week is the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. We say fall, but that really should read “the tearing down of the Berlin Wall,” which was one of the first concrete memories I have of watching CNN was the coverage of thousands of Berliners — Ossis and Wessis gathered on either side of the Brandenburg Gate, chanting and and partying, and some very nervous and confused looking soldiers dotted about here and there. Then, in a moment that could never be so well choreographed as what actually happened, a young man jumped on top of the…
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George P. Talks With The Daily Beast
This is for my Rice friends. Somehow, the Owlmanac missed this: Even though we just trudged out of the last Bush era, everyone wants to know when George P. Bush, Jeb Bush’s eldest son and the family’s fourth-generation standard-bearer, is going to run for something. But P., as he’s known, has bigger things on his mind. He’s thinking about parachuting onto the frontlines of his uncle’s War on Terror. Lt. Junior Grade Bush, 33, joined the Navy Reserve in 2007 as an intelligence officer. The Navy recently told him, like thousands of others, that the two ongoing wars required him…
