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Published: 07/24/10

Michael Reagan to Arkansas GOP: What Would Ronald Reagan Do?

By  Suzi Parker - Politics Daily
Michael Reagan to Arkansas GOP: What Would Ronald Reagan Do?

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas -- Michael Reagan knows what fires up the Republican base -- his father. On Friday night, Reagan visited Arkansas -- a battleground state in the midterm elections -- to urge 300 GOP faithful at the state's annual convention to focus on the big picture, not the small details. That is, if they want to recapture Ronald Reagan's "shining city on a hill." "We shouldn't worry about who gets the credit," said Reagan, a former conservative radio host and the adopted son of Ronald Reagan and the actress Jane Wyman. "We should worry about winning the elections in November." In ...

Published: 11/6/09

20 Years On, a Street Recalls the Berlin Wall

By  William Boston - AOL News
20 Years On, a Street Recalls the Berlin Wall

BERLIN (Nov. 6) -- Astrid Kaiser still trembles when she remembers being frisked as a child by Red Army guards at the fortified border on Bernauer Strasse, where communist East Germany first began erecting the Berlin Wall on Aug. 13, 1961. "They even searched my doll carriage," says Kaiser, now 58. "I still feel uneasy walking on the eastern side." As Germany celebrates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989, this street in its former shadow sums up the mix of pain, hope and nostalgia the wall still inspires. Urban change has erased many of the last vestiges of ...

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