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...right-wing extremist Vlaams Belang party or the radical Arab European League. The idea that an AEL candidate might be a main rival to Vlaams Belang in the 2012 municipal elections is plainly outrageous, since AEL's percentage of the vote in the last election was negligible. Dirk Lambrecht Brussels Your stories on discrimination against immigrants in Europe summed up my experience as a French-born Muslim as well as that of some of my friends. I have several university degrees and speak five languages, but I couldn't get even an internship in France in my field, finance. Many...
...doing and the buying and selling of carbon dioxide?emissions allowances. Not a word about the much larger emissions problem caused by other parts of the world, especially the U.S., which among other nations declined to participate in the efforts of the Kyoto accord to save the planet. Dirk Roggeveen Voorburg, the Netherlands The Kyoto accord is not about saving the earth. It is about saving humankind for a while longer before accelerated climate change wipes out the not-very-wise Homo sapiens. If we were really smart, we would take into account our track record of raping the earth...
Ongoing through Saturday, Feb. 26. The American Repertory Theater presents Foreign Aids, written and performed by Pieter-Dirk Uys. Zero Arrow Theatre. Tickets vary. Tickets at A.R.T. Box Office or by calling...
Ongoing through Saturday February 26. The American Repertory Theater presents “Foreign Aids,” written and performed by Pieter-Dirk Uys. Zero Arrow Theatre. Tickets vary. Tickets at A.R.T. Box Office or by calling...
...Tip” O’Neill in the 1970’s. After she lost—twice—the newly founded center took over the space, and to this day pays the rent using donations from members. One of its founders, MIT mathematician Dirk Struik, was banned from teaching during what Dodderman calls “the dark years of the McCarthy era.” Struik stayed on at MIT, and “he couldn’t teach but they had to pay him anyway,” Dodderman says...