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  West Berlin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Berlin, though surrounded by the Soviet sector, would be similiarly divided, with the western allies occupying an enclave consisting of the western parts of the city.
West Berlin was run by an elected Mayor and city government at Rathaus Schöneberg, but this government formally derived its authority from the occupying forces, not its electoral mandate.
The ambiguous status of West Berlin also meant that men there were exempt from the Federal Republic's compulsory military service; this exemption made the city a popular home for West German youths, which resulted in a flourishing counterculture that became one of the defining features of the city.
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 Judgment in Berlin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Judgment in Berlin is a book by federal judge Herbert Jay Stern about a hijacking trial in the United States Court for Berlin in 1979, over which he presided.
From the end of World War II in 1945 until the reunification of Germany in October 1990, Berlin was divided into four sectors: the American Sector, the French Sector, the British Sector, and the Soviet Sector, each named after the occupying power.
The Soviet Sector, informally called East Berlin, was effectively governed as a part of East Germany, then a Warsaw Pact state under communism, and the American, French, and British Sectors, collectively called West Berlin, were effectively governed as parts of West Germany, a member of NATO.
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 'Judgment in Berlin' (PG)
The incident, which is at the heart of the film "Judgment in Berlin," put the governments of the United States and West Germany in a tough position.
"Judgment in Berlin," which tells the story of the hijacker's trial in a U.S. courtroom set up in Berlin, pivots on a very narrow legal point.
To apply esthetic judgments to the film, which is indifferently staged, dully paced and blandly photographed, seems nearly pointless.
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 Spectator, The: A liberal icon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 1946, Berlin resumed the teaching fellowship to which he had been elected at New College in 1938, but returned to All Souls in 1950 on the grounds that he was overworked, did not really like teaching undergraduates, and judged the fellows of New College to be boring hacks.
Berlin was an intimate of Weizmann, refused to shake hands with Menachem Begin when he met him in the United States, and idealised Israel as an enemy of violence and a kind of `welfare state' built on the `liberal foundations' of 1789 and 1848.
Berlin had a defective sense of the complicated relation between theory and practice and of the ubiquity of force, accident, reaction, interests and institutions.
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 [No title]
Bolstered by vast erudition, Berlin challenges the long prevailing absolutistic conceit in western thought: that there are universal, timeless truths that hold for all people, everywhere, at all times; truths that label dissenters as wrong headed heretics.
Berlin identifies this monistic creed throughout European rational and spiritual thought and warns of the dangers of its oversimplification.
Berlin, born in Riga Lithuania in 1909 and educated in England, died there in 1997.
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 Texas Judiciary Online - HTML Opinion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Berlin and Merz sued Gibbins for assault, claiming they had not laid a glove on him, and Gibbins counterclaimed against Berlin and Merz for trespassing and assault.
A conditional damage question followed, wherein Berlin was awarded $100,000 for past physical pain and mental anguish, $250,000 for future pain and mental anguish, $25,000 for disfigurement in the past, and $50,000 for impairment in the past.
Following the verdict, Gibbins filed a motion for judgment not withstanding the verdict, or alternatively for remittitur, and objections to the proposed judgment of Berlin and Merz.
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 WD60568: Alice Pollock, Appellant v. Berlin-Wheeler, Inc., Respondent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In reviewing a court-tried case, the judgment of the trial court must be affirmed unless there was insufficient evidence to support it, it was against the weight of the evidence, or it either misapplied or misconstrued the law.
If the grounds upon which the trial court based its judgment are erroneous, an appellate court may nonetheless affirm the judgment on any pleaded theory supported by the evidence.
The judgment of $2,162.50 in favor of Berlin-Wheeler is affirmed.
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 West Berlin biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
West Berlin was surrounded entirely by the Soviet sectors and so was an enclave.
Although West Berlin was de facto part of West Germany, it was not considered to be a Bundesland, nor part of one, and the Grundgesetz (Constitution) had no application there.
Instead, it was administered by the West Berlin Senate at Rathaus Schöneberg, given its authority by the occupying forces.
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 Converted W. Va. Grievance Board Decision
Berlin and presented documentary evidence in support of her claim in addition to testifying on her own behalf.
Berlin confirmed the Grievant's duties as previously stated and emphasized that she, the Grievant, was responsible for the day-to-day operation of the department which required a wide degree of latitude and independent judgment.
Berlin notes that her supervision of the Grievant consisted primarily of the Grievant filing a monthly report during a supervisory session, supplemented with one or two telephone calls per week and visitation of the Center bi-monthly.
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 Encyclopedia: West Berlin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
East Berlin was the name given to the eastern part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990.
West Berlin comprised the following boroughs: Berlin is subdivided into 12 boroughs (Bezirke in German), which are administrative units with political rights comparable to incorporated communities in the rest of Germany (although they are not separate legal entities from the city).
Wedding (German der Wedding) is a district in the borough of Mitte, Berlin, Germany and was a separate borough in northwestern Berlin until it was fused with Tiergarten and Mitte in 2001.
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 MPI for Human Development: Library and Research Information
Equally central to wisdom-related knowledge and judgment are the "spiritual" incomprehensibilities of life, such as the mind-body dynamics or the existence of a divine being.
The five qualitative criteria for the evaluation of wisdom-related knowledge and judgment are suited for application to a wide array of person-specific as well as social manifestations of wisdom.
Without wisdom as a meta-heuristic, our knowledge and judgment about the conduct and meaning of life would be manifested at a lower level of quality, with a greater degree of fragmentation, and without the proactive directionality towards optimization that the concept of wisdom prefigures.
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Berlin's insight is that there's no trouble here, or, rather, that the trouble is not in politics but in us.
Berlin hopes that we can return from these mistakes to an imperfect knowledge that is good of its kind, and the better for being the right kind.
In every case, the progressive task will require a cultivation of the sort of political judgment that Berlin describes, a sense of the best and the worst that are possible at any moment and an apprehension of how to bring about one rather than the other.
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 Commentary Magazine - The Best Songwriter of Them All   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
...BERLIN was born in Russia in 1888, probably in the province of Mogilev, about 200 miles east of Minsk...
...Berlin's first wife had died in 1912 shortly after their honeymoon, and in 1926 he married a prominent socialite and writer for the New Yorker, Ellin Mackay...
...In contrast to Berlin and Gershwin, Jerome Kern was not a child of the East European Jewish ghetto...
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 Shootings at the Berlin Wall - Judgment of the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof)
The reaching by the fugitive of the western sector of Berlin was accordingly "to be prevented in every case and in the end by all means".
The judge of fact, as the correlation of the grounds of the judgment shows, did not overlook the fact that the defendants had only grown up after the building of the Berlin wall and according to their origin and life history had no opportunity to subject their indoctrination to a critical assessment.
Conditional intention means the perpetrator foresaw that his action might fit the elements of a crime, and approved of this; or foresaw it as a serious possibility and accepted it.
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 James Gabaree and Traci Trudo v. Peerless Insurance Company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
They do not argue that summary judgment was improper because material factual disputes existed requiring a trial on the merits of plaintiffs' claims.
Nor do plaintiffs argue that defendant was not entitled to judgment as a matter of law based on the undisputed facts.
V.R.C.P. 56(c) provides that summary judgment "shall be rendered forthwith if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that any party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law." V.R.C.P. 56(c).
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 Berlin/Prague Other Voices
Berlin was until recently governed by all four forces...
You are talking about how Berlin has been the center of Nazism; it is true; however, you also have to look at this country and point out its mistakes of the past.
Dismissing Germans and Germany on the basis of Berlin, which in many cases is a crystallization of all the tensions in German culture, is the same mistake many Germans make when they base their ideas about the U.S. on a visit to New York City.
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 A review of Isaiah’s Berlin “On Political Judgment”
The thing is rather to widen the space of investigative possibilities in our discipline by outright accepting that it is possible and desirable to dedicate oneself to other fields of political life that have their own dimension and development.
Second, there is the continuous readapting implied by the incorporation of politically affected phenomena (that is tosay, not necessarilly political in their origin, as the issue of the environment and that of ethnicity) widening the public problems’ agenda and making of the ruling function a complex exercise filled with uncertainties.
And last, but not less important, the challenge of understanding, as the new century is about to begin, the role played by the media, by computer science and bio-diversity as leading issues questining the very same roots of social organization inherited from the Modern Age.
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 Judgment in Berlin -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Judgment in Berlin -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Over the prosecutor's objections, Judge Stern ruled that the defendants were entitled to be (additional info and facts about tried by a jury) tried by a jury.
In 1988, Judge Stern's book became the basis of a movie starring (additional info and facts about Sean Penn) Sean Penn.
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 Judgment in Berlin Movie: Judgment in Berlin DVD is available from Bestprices.com
Judgment in Berlin Movie: Judgment in Berlin DVD is available from Bestprices.com
They land in West Berlin at a U.S. Airforce Base, which counts as U.S. territory.
American officials are later forced to hold a trial to determine whether the political refugees should be criminally prosecuted for commandeering the flight.
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 FT June/July 2002: Correspondence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Futterman is certainly accurate in his judgment that those in the majority tend to dominate the opposition with power politics rather than engage in genuine dialogue with them.
As Berlin wrote, the longing to be free in the positive sense must be recognized as a valid universal goal.
Weigel is correct to argue that Berlin’s endorsement of the negative concept of freedom—as ultimately more humane or dignified than the positive concept—has contributed to some unexpected (and undesirable) developments.
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 WendyTech - Attorneys, Technology and the Future of the Legal Profession - About This Site
A staunch opponent of Hitler, Dietrich left much of her estate to the city of Berlin when she died.
While this film shows Nazi atrocities, it also frankly addresses the pressures put on the judge to impose light sentences on the defendants --- it's three years after the end of the war, and the West is confronting the Soviet Union, and needs German support to do so.
Written and directed by Leo Penn, whose son, Sean, has a small but crucial role as a witness, this film stars Martin Sheen as an American judge in Germany who must decide if the hijacking of an East German plane was a justifiable violation of law.
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 THE INDIAN RUNNER - SEAN PENN Homepage - filmography: Judgment In Berlin
THE INDIAN RUNNER - SEAN PENN Homepage - filmography: Judgment In Berlin
A failed escape from East Berlin begins an intriguing international trial to decide the fate of three would be defectors, and the truth behind their desperate hijacking of a Polish plane.
Herbet J Stern, an american District Judge is called in to preside over the case against the three men, but his task is made virtually impossible by the involvement of the three governments, each of them clouding the truth with their political views.
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 GreenCine | product main - Judgment in Berlin (1988)
In 1978, an East German waiter used a toy gun to hijack a Polish airliner heading for East Berlin and forced the pilot to land at an American Air Force base in West Germany.
The best-selling book about the ensuing trial of the hijacker -- written by the presiding judge, Herbert J. Stern -- is given film treatment by director Leo Penn.
The contractor arranges for the woman, her daughter and another man (Heinz Hoenig), who has children living in West Germany, to meet him in Gdansk, Poland, where he will give them false documents allowing them to get into West Germany.
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In 1978, Helmut Thiele, desperate for her freedom, hijacked a Polish airliner bound for East Berlin, forcing its pilots to change course and land at an American air base in West Germany.
However, once the plane was on U.S. soil in Germany, the real struggle began.
In an American court in Berlin, it was up to one man, Judge Herbert Stein, to make this life-or-death decision.
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 AMCTV.com SHOW - Judgment in Berlin
This courtroom drama, about the real-life trial of East Germans who hijacked a plane in 1978 to seek asylum in the West, stars Martin Sheen as presiding judge Herbert J. Stern, whose book was the basis for the film.
After the East Germans land with their hijacked craft in West Berlin, the Soviets apply pressure to the American and West German governments, insisting that international accords against skyjacking make a swift trial and stiff sentence mandatory.
But Stern wants the defendants, who are being tried under U.S. law, to have every right guaranteed in the Constitution, including a trial by jury.
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 Judgment in Berlin
Now they must stand trial in a potentially explosive fight for their freedom in this taut, political thriller based on a true story.
Martin Sheen (Wall Street, Apocalypse Now, The West Wing) stars as Herbert J. Stern, the American judge brought to West Berlin to preside over the complex, precedent-shattering case.
Sean Penn (Colors, Casualties of War, The Thin Red Line, I Am Sam) gives an electrifying performance as the sole eyewitness to the incident - whose testimony holds the key to freedom or imprisonment for the hijackers.
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 Judgment in Berlin
A movie that pays homage to Top Gun, 2001 and more, Stealth never really takes flight due to the fact that it never seems to have an original idea of its own.
Antonio Banderas leaves his mark on every film; in his latest, the mark he leaves is a big "Z." Find out more here.
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