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08-03-2007, 02:30 PM
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| Scarlett Mod   |  Very beautiful..thanks eme. Just found out who else the company will be using to advertise their stuff Gorbachev Is New Face of Louis Vuitton The former Soviet leader is to appear in an ad campaign for the French luxury label, along with Steffi Graf and her husband, Andre Agassi, and Catherine Deneuve, said a statement Thursday from Vuitton, a division of the LVMH group, Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA. Shot by photographer Annie Leibovitz, the ads focus on travel -- a "core value" for the company that started in 1854 as a trunk-maker, the statement said.  http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-people-gorbachev-vuitton,1,7636095.story?ctrack=1&cset=true |
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08-03-2007, 04:36 PM
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08-03-2007, 06:42 PM
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| *Loves Josh On Stage*  | it was, I was like 6 when that happened and just saw the Brandenburg Gate with the Wall in between just a few months before it went down. and it´s really emotional when you now can go through this Gate. And you can find a line in whole Berlin that still shows where the Wall went/stood. That´s really impressive. Berlin is really worse a visit, believe me Last edited by aloha; 08-03-2007 at 06:43 PM.. |
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08-09-2007, 10:47 AM
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| Moderate Moderator | Germany Trying To Preserve Sections Of Berlin Wall BERLIN (AP) -- When communist East Germany collapsed in 1989, Berliners were eager to tear down its most detested symbol -- the Berlin Wall that divided their city during the Cold War. Seventeen years later, city officials and artists are arguing about how to do the exact opposite -- and keep the wall's largest remaining section, now a major tourist attraction, from falling apart. "The wall is rotten inside, crumbling away on the outside and there is not enough money to pay for its entire preservation," said city official Joerg Flaehmig -- adding that the planned September start of restoration work would most likely have to be postponed. Flaehmig was referring to the East Side Gallery, a three-quarter-mile stretch of the wall in Berlin's Friedrichshain neighborhood that 118 international artists commissioned by the city covered with graffiti in 1990. As the wall's longest remaining stretch, the East Side Gallery attracts droves of tourists, who pose for snapshots in front of the murals, where the Cold War superpowers stood nose to nose for four decades. The wall's western side was covered in graffiti during the decades after the barrier was erected on Aug. 13, 1961. Parts of the eastern side -- to which the East Side Gallery belongs -- were painted only after communism collapsed. However, car emissions, rain, ice and aging have turned famous images such as the fraternal communist kiss between East German leader Erich Honecker and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, or the East German Trabant car that appears to be bursting through the wall, into a sad sight -- with lon |