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                    [Title] => The Cold War served warm
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Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies is an entertaining and engrossing historical drama, that with the luxury of Father Time and hindsight, brings us back to the Cold War era; and looks for the warm, fuzzy and human within the strident, paranoid brinksmanship and struggle for information and intelligence that characterized that juncture in history.

[DatePublished] => 2015-10-15 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805321 [AuthorName] => Philip Cu-Unjieng [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1488689 [Title] => The man from U.N.C.L.E High style, low brow [Summary] =>

It’s not until the climax of “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,” a colorful, Cold War-era spy thriller, that its main failing becomes clear: The plot doesn’t matter.

[DatePublished] => 2015-08-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Entertainment [SectionUrl] => cebu-entertainment [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1390163 [Title] => 5 things to know about the Berlin Wall [Summary] =>

Over the following weeks, workers erected a 155-kilometer (96-mile) barrier encircling West Berlin. The Wall itself — up to 3.6 meters (12 feet) high — was merely the outermost part of a heavily fortified strip that variously included barbed wire, metal fences, guard towers, hidden alarms and dog walkways.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-10 10:16:19 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1325611 [AuthorName] => Frank Jordans [SectionName] => Travel and Tourism [SectionUrl] => travel-and-tourism [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/world/20160605/berlin-wall.jpg ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 924943 [Title] => Pre-dawn operation removes part of Berlin Wall [Summary] =>

Work crews backed by about 250 police removed parts of the Berlin Wall known as the East Side Gallery before dawn yesterday to make way for an upscale building project, despite demands by protesters that the site be preserved.

[DatePublished] => 2013-03-28 06:21:25 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 716373 [Title] => Germany marks construction of the Berlin Wall [Summary] =>

The Berlin Wall's construction 50 years ago must be a constant reminder to citizens today to stand up for freedom and democracy, the city's mayor said yesterday as a united Germany commemorated the bitter anniversary.

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When you reach a certain age and life becomes precarious, some resort to making bucket lists.

[DatePublished] => 2011-07-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134199 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804784 [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 651895 [Title] => Statues devastated in WWII go on show in Berlin [Summary] =>

The ancient gods and fantastical creatures going on show in Berlin this week have made an unlikely comeback from near-destruction.

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It was in 1965 when I visited what was then known as East Berlin.

[DatePublished] => 2010-11-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134199 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804784 [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 272635 [Title] => Keep Cebu as one, urges Berlin mayor [Summary] => CEBU — The mayor of Germany’s City of Berlin, whose son is married to a Cebuana, urged Cebuanos to unite and keep their province as one, recalling the financial difficulties her city encountered when the infamous Berlin Wall divided it into East and West Berlin for 28 years.

Berlin Mayor Karin Schubert, who has visited the country several times, attended Friday’s launch of the Balik Mandaue program as guest of honor of Mandaue City Mayor Thadeo Ouano and Gov. Gwen Garcia, both staunch opponents of the divide-Cebu proposals.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096371 [AuthorName] => Jose P. Sollano [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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