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Germany

• January 27 -- Communist East Germany's "Social Safety Net"
A fascinating story on state-sponsored doping of Olympic athletes in Communist East Germany includes this dubious line on the fall of the Berlin Wall: "Retired, unemployed, the social safety net of her country no longer available to soften her fall after reunification…."

• January 13 -- Communist East Germany Not All Bad
Richard Bernstein pens "Warm, Fuzzy Feelings for East Germany's Gray Old Days," a playful look at Communist nostalgia in East Germany: "All this has given rise to a sort of East German post-mortem feeling that maybe the East had its good aspects after all, especially a certain economic security and stability, even if your best vacation option was Bulgaria."

• June 9 -- Whose Credibility Problem?
In “Bush Aides Deny Effort to Slant Data on Iraq Arms,” David Sanger warns other nations may “begin to question American credibility.” But even France and Germany admit Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.