BERLIN — It was hot and humid this past July when I stood at the Brandenburg Gate. A brick stripe about a foot wide wound through the street in front of it like a hairline surgical scar. Pressed into the stripe was a little brass plate: "Berliner Mauer," it said. Berlin Wall.
COMMENT: Berlin, a city still in progress, threaded by brick stripe
Monday, November 9, 2009 | 12:01 a.m. CST;
updated 3:18 p.m. CST, Monday, November 9, 2009
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