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" ... My mistake, of course. Appointments in Berlin had run long. I had an hour-and-a-half to make a business dinner in Dresden but, what with a rush-hour slog on local streets out of Berlin and end-of-business-day truck traffic on the autobahn, this hop was going to be more like two hours. I thought I could shave it down. As many of these frangible moments tend to do, it became a rather expensive decision, trying not to be late for the dinner. On top of which, I was now really late. ... "