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...playground in Cologne's Chorweiler district, whose high-rise blocks became home to many of the migrants that the Ford Motor Co. recruited into Germany in the '70s. Of Chorweiler's 80,000 residents, 60% have immigrant backgrounds and a third are on welfare. Lale Akgün, a psychotherapist and M.P., knew that the best way to keep the peace in such a culturally diverse area was to start with the kids. So, in 1995, she founded Kindernöte (Children's Needs) with a group of family counselors, and they put up that sign...
...Today, Kindernöte runs a dozen different groups for several hundred children. Every week, they play soccer, go on field trips together, help each other with homework or just throw a party. "Many of the children see that their prejudices do not bear up against reality," Akgün says. "They see that they can get on with children from other nationalities." When it's time to start up a new group, Kindernöte employees sometimes visit a playground with just a skipping rope and some chalk (since 1995, they've gone through 352 kg of chalk...
...cousin responds, “I just don’t think about it.” Ignoring the realities of the world depicted in “Children of Men” might be the best recourse available. Directed and co-written by Alfonso Cuarón of “Y Tu Mama También” and “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” fame, the film imagines a world in which women are no longer able to bear children. Based on P.D. James’ novel, the film opens eighteen...
...Social Analysis 10, “The Principles of Economics,” Beren Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw’s 150-dollar “Principles of Economics” is the only required text. Yet Mankiw maintains he isn’t fishing for royalties: his book was in the class before...
...Debora M. Amanti ’08. The weirdest moment of the night was undoubtedly when a certain creepo, after placing a winning bid on a scantily clad student performing an elaborate striptease, then seized the stage and put a special date up for sale: Christopher N. Hanley ’07 promised a trip to New York to a five-star restaurant, and backstage access to a Broadway show. Hey, it’s for charity. In the end, an $110 bid from Lena Chen ’09, who is also a Crimson editor—who went...