Word: amsterdam
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Like most teenagers, Kissin is a romantic at heart, though his still rather narrow repertoire includes Mozart and Haydn as well as Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich. In Amsterdam last year he was scheduled to play the Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 1, even though the piece had by then become boring for him. The day before the performance brought the news that Andrei Sakharov had died. "That changed everything completely," he says. "I used to play the final movement with a lighthearted though sarcastic mood. After the news, it felt as though I had not performed the concerto in 10 years...
Tallahassee will join a select group of cities in the world with magnetic laboratories, according to Jack Crow, director of the Florida consortium. Others include Moscow; Amsterdam; Grenoble, France, and cities in Poland and Japan...
...leaders are apparently investing in precious gems. "Cash is a pain," says a DEA official. "It's bulky if you move it, traceable if you bank it, and it mildews if you bury it." Which may explain why Colombians have been reported buying up jewels -- principally diamonds -- in Antwerp, Amsterdam and Hong Kong. U.S. agents don't think these buyers are Christmas shopping. "You can transport millions of dollars' worth of diamonds in your back pocket," says an investigator. Furthermore, diamonds don't rot when stored in the underground caches favored by Colombian dons...
...biggest marriage on the Continent took place in April with the joining of two longtime Dutch rivals, Algemene Bank Nederland (ABN) and Amsterdam- Rotterdam Bank (Amro). The pair forms Europe's sixth largest bank and the 19th biggest in the world, with combined assets of $184 billion and 55,700 employees. "A merger is necessary to operate worldwide and in the Netherlands," says Roelof Nelissen, Amro's chairman...
...features a combination of gusto and raw intelligence. Dance with the Devil is reminiscent of those studio-bound productions with twice-breathed dialogue and a B-movie cast. If Kirk Douglas of Beverly Hills had worked only for directors like Danny Dennison, he could still be Issur Danielovitch of Amsterdam...