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...authority, and after years of legal wrangling won her case in September, when the Constitutional Court ruled that Muslim teachers have the right to wear head scarves in school. "I felt discriminated against for years," says the Afghanistan-born Ludin, who now works in a private Islamic school in Berlin, "and this decision comes as a great relief." But the Court also decreed that Germany's 16 states were "free to establish the legal basis" for a head-scarf ban. In other words, state legislatures could ban head scarves from public-school classrooms if they felt their presence interfered with...
...Berlin: Klenkler Security and Investigation Services Once the protectors of high-level German judges and prosecutors, these former cops now often guard visiting Saudis and banking chiefs, at $47 per hour...
...Nina and Torsten R?mer, curators of Project Paradise, open the door and lead the way deeper into the earth along a narrow concrete passageway to a Nazi-era bunker. During World War II, Berlin's huddled masses sheltered here as Allied bombs flattened their city. Until Nov. 2, you're more likely to bump into Hitler, as played by a Russian actor, begging for forgiveness; or a snake handler with a boa constrictor that's meant to represent the serpent in Eden. This may be an unlikely setting for an art show, particularly one that's supposed to celebrate heaven...
...Alexanderplatz bunker was Berlin's largest civilian air-raid shelter, built to accommodate 3,000 people in 55 rooms. It now houses 200 performance and installation artists from around the world, whose work includes rooms containing a depiction of Dante's vision of heaven, a reconstructed department store complete with sales staff to greet visitors, and an Adam-and-Eve tableau featuring an apple tree?and that...
...GLOBAL ADVISOR Travel: Lowdown on the high life Check In: Best airport lounge Concorde: A piece of history Berlin: Underground art DIY: Taking kids abroad Style: Bespoke, not broke Food: Lambrosia...