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...take heart, fellow Crimson, because we aren't even close when it comes to having the stupidest nickname in all of college football. That honor belongs to the vaunted Student Princes of little Heidelberg University...
...cold war either, one of the main events of the year is the 300th birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach.* Anyone who missed the St. Matthew Passion in Bach's hometown of Leipzig on his actual birthday, March 21, can sample Bach festivals in Hamburg, Berlin, Heidelberg and Stuttgart, as well as the nine-day Bachanalia on the island of Madeira in June. And if this seems a surfeit of baroque music, remember that June 16 is Bloomsday in Dublin, when admirers of James Joyce spend 18 hours retracing the steps of the hero of Ulysses from church...
...your apartments and kebab stalls go up in flames." All too often, the threats are carried out. In West Berlin, a group of teen-age German thugs, screaming abuse at foreigners, attacked a Turkish shop last November, roughing up the owner and his family and ransacking the rooms. In Heidelberg, scores of right-wing fanatics assaulted migrant workers and paraded through the city shouting neo-Nazi slogans. Police arrested...
...music attractions are among the most prestigious in Europe. Apart from the Munich and the Bayreuth Wagner festivals, which have long since been sold put, there are Jugendfestspiele at Bayreuth in August, Ansbach's legendary Bach week also early in August, and open-air opera at Augsburg and Heidelberg, followed in September by the Berlin Festival centering on Herbert von Karajan. West Berlin has become as racy as it was in the '30s, drawing Americans by the hundreds with dozens of cafés offering every variety of decadence...
...abrupt end. With only his tattered, ill-fitting uniform and not a pfennig to his name, Kohl made the 560-mile walk home to finish his schooling. Working part time as a stone polisher, he went on to earn a doctorate in political science from the University of Heidelberg...