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The wall started out as barbed wire and road blocks, but refugees continued to make their way through the barriers, by swimming through sewers and canals and jumping from buildings and railway bridges — risking life and limb for freedom and democracy.
The New York Times describes his eulogy, with its description of Diana as "the most hunted woman on earth," as "passionate," and the Washington Post says it was "barbed and biting."
But if it's strictly hyperbole, with the ring strung with verbal barbed wire, Garrison will helicopter him on one finger so Jesse pees outside the ring.
Hungary was the ﬁrst country to draw back its Iron Curtain, dismantling the barbed wire along its Austrian border and allowing East Germans to escape to the West.
He writes up his alarming conclusions in a 473-page book; full of startling facts about the changes underway in technology and the global market; larded with phrases in Japanese, German, Chinese, and even Malay; and punctuated with occasional barbed remarks about the blinkered vision of conventional economists.