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From: International Herald Tribune
Date: 20001020
Author:John Schmid

John Schmid
International Herald Tribune
10-20-2000
The Nobel laureate Guenter Grass once dissed Frankfurt as a ''lump of concrete.'' The pain must be real for a 1960s leftist forced to watch economic policy wonks and speculative predators overrun the birthplace of the national poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. This medieval money-changing center hurried after World War II to rebuild itself; Frankfurt almost became West Germany's postwar capital. But fate was cruel. Bonn got the prize, while Frankfurt got all the lumpy pragmatic architecture. It also got two central banks the only city in ...

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