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Portrait of German-born artist Hans Haacke stands in front of the German Reichstag in Berlin Tuesday April 4, 2000. He plans to update the motto inscribed on the tympanum over the entrance of the Reichstag "Dem Deutschen Volke" (" To the German People") with an art piece inside the Reichstag bearing the motto "To the Population". Kaiser Wilhelm II. fought four years to keep the original inscription off the Reichstag after the building was finished in 1894, because he thought it was too democratic. The artist's proposal consists of a wooden trough, seven meters wide (23 ft) and 21 meters (69 ft) long, to be filled with soil brought by each of the 669 legislators from their home towns. On top, the words " Der Bevoelkerung", or " To the Population", will be lit up in letters of the same typeface and size of those above the building's entrance. (AP Photo/Roberto Pfeil)