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Fri 11 Nov 2009Chasing desire may prove our ultimate wall
The financial crisis has meant equally imposing obstacles confront us 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, writes JOHN WATERS
ALTHOUGH THE celebrations of the 20th anniversary of its fall have implied something remote and spectacularly diversionary, what we called the “Berlin” Wall might, if you think about it, have crumbled a couple of hundred yards off the east coast of Ireland. Its collapse, in this sense, happened in slow motion, starting that night in November 1989 and culminating in the opening of European borders in 2004.
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