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...Overby (who co-produced Little Honey) seems to have inspired a challenge: say something new about love and happiness. Lyric-sheet readers may wonder if she's up to it. Her usual evocations and minimalist stanzas are replaced by lines like "You're drinking in a bar in Amsterdam/ I'm thinking baby far out, be my man," proof that love and goofiness are but a beer apart...
...Airways, flies smaller 64-seat Boeing 757s, from New York to Paris. There are only two classes: Biz, with a flat bed, and Prem+, a step up from economy, with reclining seats and 52 inches of legroom. On Oct. 15, the carrier will begin service between New York and Amsterdam; the first 1,000 customers flying Prem+ will pay just $499 roundtrip. The airline will also sell 1,000 Prem+ seats from NYC to Paris...
...only to attack Christianity; he also digs his claws into Judaism and Islam. An interview with Rabbi Dovid Weiss, an anti-Zionist who supports the Iranian president’s recent denial of the Holocaust, reveals the darkest entrails of religious hypocrisy. While roaming the underground tunnels of Amsterdam, Maher interviews Muslim British rapper Aki Nawaz of the band Propagandhi, whose controversial lyrics glorify terrorism. Incidentally, Nawaz, whose livelihood literally depends on freedom of speech, has no qualms about the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie for his book “The Satanic Verses,” which incensed Muslim...
...strategy. Their only previous connection to each other had been through a mutual friend, Jon T. Staff V ’10. Staff had originally planned to compete himself, and sent out an e-mail hoping to find some teammates to join him. But he is studying abroad in Amsterdam and was not able to be flown to Los Angeles for the show. “John and I had talked last year about going to L.A. to be on The Price is Right, but then we found out that Bob Barker wasn’t interested anymore...
...graduate students, and fans of Ugresic’s works from outside of the Harvard community. Ugresic, who taught briefly at Harvard in 1992, was invited as the first guest in a series of seminars hosted by the Department of Slavic Studies. The author, who currently resides in Amsterdam, said that her extensive travels have left her with a sense of cultural “schizophrenia and split-personality.” “I am Bulgarian, Dutch, American, Yugoslavian, Serbian, Macedonian, Bosnian, Slovenian, Croatian, European, Swedish, Mexican...but that is not enough—give me more identities...