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DIED. PRINCE CLAUS OF THE NETHERLANDS, 76, German-born royal consort to Queen Beatrix, whose 1966 marriage to the then Crown Princess provoked public anger in a country where memories of German aggression were still fresh; in Amsterdam. The onetime Hitler Youth eventually became the royal family's most popular member, fathering three sons and taking an active role in the Netherlands' Third World development policy...
...when the Afghans fought the Soviets and then one another, the hash trade thrived. "Afghan black" remained a staple sale for cannabis dealers across the world. Mazar-i-Sharif gave its name to a particularly potent variety. And last year, in the final weeks of the Taliban, Amsterdam's coffee-shop owners even boasted they were doing their bit for the war on terror by buying blocks stamped with a golden Northern Alliance stencil reading "Freedom for Afghanistan...
...days before the Sept. 2000 grand opening of a replica of Amsterdam's railway station at his Holland Village property development in the Chinese rust-belt city of Shenyang, agri-business tycoon Yang Bin decided he wanted the large greenhouses nearby filled with flora so visitors would get the impression the project was on track. Yang's farm experts protested there was no way to grow the requested tulip and orchid plants that quickly. Undeterred, Yang went out and bought them from local farmers, replanted them in the greenhouses and passed them off as his own. "If you work...
...past year, however, Yang has had to defend himself against rumors of questionable business practices and tax evasion. Some of his bad publicity surrounds construction of a Dutch-style residential housing and theme park near Shenyang in northeast China. The massive project, which includes re-creations of Amsterdam streets, luxury apartments, botanical gardens and an indoor beach, reportedly will cost $360 million. The size of the project has raised concerns among investors that Euro-Asia's own financial standing might be undermined. Both Yang and the company say the two operations are totally separate...
...pure form or technique. He used a resolutely figurative approach to grapple with life, however it presented itself - in war, in love, and, time and again, in his own often inscrutable face. Despite the many years he lived elsewhere - Paris in 1903 and again from 1929 to 1932, Amsterdam from 1937 to 1947, and the United States until his death in 1950 - it is the grim history of Germany itself that informs much of his work. Supremely confident and self-aware, Beckmann intended from an early age to make a mark with his art. His early paintings, such as Young...