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...their attempt to create a corporate utopia, founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are creating two stock classes--one for themselves and one for the rest of us, who must bid through what's known as a Dutch auction. For a variety of reasons, it's not a stock you need to rush...
...anti-apartheid National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) to deliver the annual Day of Affirmation speech at the University of Cape Town. He opened his speech with these words: “I came here because of my deep interest and affection for a land settled by the Dutch in the mid-seventeenth century, then taken over by the British, and at last independent; a land in which the native inhabitants were at first subdued, but relations with whom remain a problem to this day; a land which defined itself on a hostile frontier; a land which has tamed...
Jonathan P. Dutch, a broker at the Dartmouth Company, which leases the building, would not say whether a new tenant had been found...
...Inspiration to her People Juliana, the former Queen of the Netherlands who died last month, was shy, informal and enormously popular with her subjects [MILESTONES, April 5]. During World War II, the German blitzkrieg of May 1940 and the subsequent occupation of Holland initially traumatized the Dutch, but eventually their resistance took on a unique character of subtle rebellion and solidarity in opposing the Nazis. Juliana was an inspiration to her people during that time, even from abroad. The year she became Queen, we looked back at her recent past and described a moving wartime plea she made for help...
Actually, it's the biggest U.S. project of Rem Koolhaas, the influential Dutch architect-thinker and hipster-polemicist. "For me it's a building that accommodates both stability and instability," he says. "The things you can predict and the things you can't." What he means is that the library is designed to accommodate whatever new technologies and purposes it may have to serve in the future. And Koolhaas is somebody who understands all too well the power of things you can't predict. The library, which opens officially next month, is not just a new symbol for the city...