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Deep emotions with (dubbed) “Dunkirk”

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"I’m a Brit, so watching the movie in Leipzig was a disturbing experience."

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Women’s well-meaning meanness

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In my homeland of Brazil, known as Plastic Surgery Capital of the World, one of the worst things one can be – besides old, disabled and black – is fat. Worse still is being a fat woman. And perhaps even worse than that is being told so (nicely) by other women, when image matters so

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US in Leipzig: sweet & sour or bitter medicine?

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Sociologist Helena Flam ponders possible intepretations or reasons for the appointment of a former refugee from Minsk, married to his same-sex partner, as the new US Consul to Leipzig.

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Anxiety: a loyal and treacherous companion

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I have known her well, as long as I've been conscious of my own existence.

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Time and the old lady: Leipzig in 1999

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"The older generation here has survived to see virtually every aspect of the society and system they helped build be repudiated by their successors. It’s one thing to have your style of dress, taste in music, social mores, etc. rejected, quite another to witness the entirety of your previous way of life be deposited into

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Moving through life’s assembly line

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Love is often not entirely explainable and may seem quite random, and therein lies its power... to somehow stall the machine, though never quite break it.

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