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...Munir was leaving all of that behind, at least temporarily, when he arrived at Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on the evening of Sept. 6. A Dutch university had awarded him a year-long scholarship to study for a master's in international law, and Munir was in a buoyant mood when he boarded Garuda Flight 974 to Amsterdam. He sent an SMS to colleague and friend Rachland Nashidik that read: "Please take care of the office and my wife and kids." On a stopover in Singapore, a fellow passenger, Tarmizi Hakim, recognized Munir and introduced himself. "There...
...poison could have been administered. "He was with his family all day on his departure day," says Rachland. Munir had a hot chocolate at the Jakarta airport, but his wife took the last few sips and didn't fall ill. When the family collected his personal effects from Dutch authorities, they found that he had not changed or spent any money, suggesting he didn't eat or drink anything during the layover in Singapore. Hakim asked Munir what he had eaten during the second flight, and Munir replied that he only had some orange juice. "He said he didn...
...fashion and home furnishings follow color trends, so too do perfumes. Or at least that's the way it seems this season with the launch of three new designer fragrances all packaged in pink. Ralph Lauren's new Lauren Style even features rosy-hued "juice" inside the bottle. For Dutch design duo Viktor & Rolf's first fragrance, Flowerbomb, the idea is to convey an explosion of blossoms. And for Marc Jacobs' second scent, Blush, the name is self-explanatory. Pink isn't the only common message in these bottles?they also all feature floral top notes with heavy accents...
Investigators say the murder suspect, a Dutch Moroccan named Mohammed Bouyeri, was a peripheral member of a radical Islamic group referred to as the Hofstad Network, which is linked to terrorist gangs in Spain and Belgium. A dozen suspected members have since been arrested in the Netherlands, where the death of van Gogh, who often slurred Muslims with unprintable epithets, has forced a tolerant country to rethink its freedoms. --By Andrea Gerlin. With reporting by Lauren Comiteau and Abi Daruvalla
When he arrived in New York City in 1926, he was 22, a stowaway on a freighter from Rotterdam, the Dutch port where he had been raised by an imposing, belligerent mother. In the U.S. he worked for years in commercial art before deciding, in the midst of the Depression, to emulate his friend Arshile Gorky and devote himself full time to painting, a choice that guaranteed him a hand-to-mouth existence. Fame arrived around 1950, the year he painted his magnificent, pulsing abstraction Excavation, a field of elbowing contours and a bravura rethinking of Cubist space...