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...embracing multicultural integration while others loudly raise the alarm over the perceived threat to liberal values. Together with xenophobic parties of the right, like Italy's Northern League, which oppose immigration for completely different reasons having to do with jobs and race, a strange alliance is taking shape. The Dutch populist Pim Fortuyn, who was murdered in 2002, was openly gay, and opposed immigration because he feared for the Netherlands' liberal way of life. But once he had broken the taboo, his cause was embraced by conservatives across Europe...
...need the United States any longer'; they are saying, 'We do not want the United States any longer.'" David Graves, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, who has worked in France, recounts the end of a very friendly conversation with a thirtysomething Dutch couple at a restaurant in Amsterdam this summer. "I like you, and I like Americans," said the man. "But I have to tell you that my generation here in Holland is moving toward seeing the U.S. the way we saw Nazi Germany in 1944." Astrid Rosenwirth, 25, an Austrian political-science student...
From old Cape Cod and Pennsylvania Dutch country to backwoods Montana, the Southwest and Los Angeles, indie radio remains a vibrant, often quirky medium still committed to a strong relationship with its listeners as it walks the tightrope between aesthetics and profits. Whether the format is music, talk, news or a potpourri, the indies' watchwords are local, live and relevant as they cater to their communities of interest and harness new technologies. The indies are counterattacking to take advantage of the status woe bedeviling mainstream radio in the U.S. The time consumers have spent listening to it has declined...
MONA LISA SMILE A Dutch emotion- recognition program determined that her non-grin is just 83% happy. She's also 9% disgusted, 6% fearful and 2% angry...
...East was never going to be easy, but a political chill has put some of the world's biggest energy projects in an unexpected deep freeze. In the decade since they [an error occurred while processing this directive] negotiated separate drilling agreements with Russian authorities, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell have gone way over budget and incurred the wrath of leading environmental groups. But last week, the two oil majors faced their biggest challenge so far: a Kremlin backlash that could hold up or even potentially derail their plans. Moscow revoked a key environmental license for Shell's $20 billion...