November 2015 - Page 2

“There’s a limit to your love…”

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This is the real problem: The desire (or lack thereof) to be engaged in a process of integration is tempered by the prospect of people who look different from us, who are non-European and have a different religion.

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Leipzig Events: The early arrival of Santa Claus (and how to escape him if you want)

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We can live out our 90s obsession, hang out with some wild-hearted folks while watching live performances, and/or see (probably) an old guy with a big belly and red suit arrive at the train station (also a 90s child, but wearing a fake white beard?). All in the same 7-day period.

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#MoviesOmU: Movies in English and other original language versions in Leipzig, November 25-December 2

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The film festivals featuring films in the original this week take us, respectively, to China (chai.China, put on by the local Confucius Institute and die naTo); France and Latin America for one more day, the 25th of November (21. Französische Filmtage and 6. Latinamerikanische Tage); the world of a legendary French director (Retrospektive Louis Malle

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Paris Attacks: The media debacle involving a female terrorism suspect

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I strongly condemn and am devastated by the recent terrorist attacks in France, in Lebanon, in Egypt and elsewhere. But I felt that I could not be silent about one of the latest examples of shoddy, irresponsible, salacious media coverage, related to the attacks. And in times like these, when panic is widespread, when violence

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