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...bizarre coda to an episode that seemed resolved, the Dutch government last week stepped down over Immigration and Integration Minister Rita Verdonk's treatment of controversial politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali. For Prime [an error occurred while processing this directive] Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, it was his second coalition break-up in only four years in office. In May, "Iron Rita" Verdonk took away Hirsi Ali's passport because the Somalian-born woman had entered the country and requested asylum in 1992 under a false name, as she had openly admitted. Many considered Verdonk's handling of the dossier excessively harsh...
...FATBOY The advantage of these beanbags, says this Dutch company, is "you won't end up with 200 million little polystyrene balls on the floor." The giant rectangles and "islands" are made from supersturdy nylon and filled with body-molding "memory balls." Choose from 16 colors, three Marimekko prints?and there's even a model for your pooch. fatboy.nl...
...FATBOY The advantage of these beanbags, says this Dutch company, is "you won't end up with 200 million little polystyrene balls on the floor." The giant rectangles and "islands" are made from supersturdy nylon and filled with body-molding "memory balls." Choose from 16 colors, three Marimekko prints - and there's even a model for your pooch. fatboy.nl
...business issues, such as gaining control of natural gas supplies to Europe and leveraging Russia's vast energy resources, that problem is growing. Allofmp3, run by a mysterious company called Mediaservices Inc., looks legit even if its legal status is questionable. The site accepts Visa and Mastercard, and a Dutch firm, ChronoPay, processes credit card transactions. The site declares that it is authorized to sell downloads by an organization called the Russian Multimedia and Internet Society (ROMS) and FAIR, another copyright licensing agency. Read the fine print and you'll see that Mediaservices claims it pays "license fees" for material...
...probably write more than most journalists.” BIG SHOT ON CAMPUS“I knew I was going to be a journalist, and that was it—full stop,” Welch says of her college days. A fine arts concentrator focusing in Dutch art, Welch was also features editor of The Crimson. According to Erica Rosenberg ’81, her roommate for three years in Thayer Hall and Lowell House, she also played in the University Band and was captain of the squash team. “She was actually really quite the jock...