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Lessons of the Cold War with Peter Robinson

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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The Dream of Opening a T-Shirt Shop in Berlin

"I will never forget that moment. I was stunned," says former ad agency employee and Berliner Michael Schmitz. "We had all gotten so used to that wall we couldn't imagine any turn of events which could possibly lead to its fall." The next day he gave notice at the ad agency and two weeks later he was on a plane to Berlin with nothing in his pocket but a thousand bucks and a dream. It took me three months to open up a shop, find a t-shirt printing factory, and to gather the photos and artwork I needed to print a variety of shirts.

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