WHEN the Berlin Wall was torn down by the East German people, Angela Merkel, a scientist who lived in East Berlin, saw the crowds and felt the euphoria of freedom that her compatriots on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain had been denied for so long.
So as hundreds of thousands of people bore down on the landmark Brandenburg Gate in the divided cityâ??s heart, what did she do? She went for a sauna, and then retired to bed with a little light reading on quantum physics.
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