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...sufficient knowledge of German even though most of them have been born and raised here," says Ali Ucar, a professor of pedagogy at Berlin's Technical University. In a study of 273 preschool children from immigrant families in Berlin's Kreuzberg district, most of whom were of Turkish origin, Ucar found that 63% of the children spoke little or no German and thus "didn't meet the linguistic requirements for primary school." Similar research from other regions and for other age groups, Ucar adds, confirm his finding: "The situation is not good...
...Pyrenees and migrated northward as the ice sheets began receding around 13,000 years ago. Velda's people similarly dispersed northward from the Iberian Peninsula, while Tara and Katrine's clans spread northward from present-day Italy. The descendants of Xenia are thought to have spread from an origin in the Caucasus not only westward into Europe, but also eastward and into the Americas. Beginning some 10,000 years ago, Jasmine's people brought agriculture with them from Syria...
...Grille very well may have let a few underage people in or maybe they didn’t. And maybe HUPD does consider the place the origin of a lot of students’ bad evenings. And maybe the place is a raunchy hole-in-the-wall that many believe deserves whatever it has coming to it. But it’s our raunchy hole in the wall and realistically, it’s the only hole in the wall we?...
...obsessions, and forces him to sit in a closet watching her having sex with another man. When finished, she pleads with Takuya to lick her top-to-bottom. More mind game than full-on physical celebration, restraint stamps this surprisingly accomplished film - a kind of miracle considering its origin in a comic book. Asian filmmakers are pulling sexy miracles out of hats like rabbits. And we all know what rabbits are famous...
...origin of the Stray children’s predicament is never overtly articulated. All that we know is that their parents are long dead or disappeared, and that Presley and Haley have since languished in their house as intellectual and emotional preteens. Did they kill their parents? Red blotches around the set’s living room hint at some bloody work done in the past. Yet the mystery is a red herring. The play, by British scribe Philip Ridley, is more interested in exploring the ins and outs of the characters’ skewed psyches, notably as depicted...