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This year’s Berlinale has the theme of globalization. The film Storm, which I had the pleasure of watching, deals with one facet of globalization namely the internationalisation of criminal law. The film paints a realistic...

The current financial crisis that is rampaging around the global economy seems to be affecting everything, including the 59th Berlinale – the Berlin International Film Festival – that kicked off on Thursday. The festival is one...

One thing that puts a lot of people off studying German is separable verbs. Well that, and the cases, irregular plurals, strong verbs, and various other linguists' delights. Not to mention the vague conception most English people...

Mary Mattingly is an artist from Connecticut in the U.S. Her work explores the themes of home, travel, cartography, and humans' relationships with each other, with machines and with corporate and political entities. Currently her...