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...history of the filibuster The word "filibuster" comes from the Dutch word meaning "pirate." Members of the U.S. Senate have pirated debate for as long as the institution has existed. Initially, House members were permitted to filibuster as well, but their growing numbers soon made the practice inadvisable. In the Senate, unlimited debate was permitted until 1917, when President Woodrow Wilson suggested the Senate adopt a new rule: a two-thirds vote (67 members) would close down ("cloture") a filibuster. In 1975, the required vote count was reduced to three-fifths (or 60 members...
After failing to ride Kanga Roddy to riches, Wang paid an undisclosed sum in late 2001 to Dutch conglomerate Philips. He bought an operation that designs mobile-phone handsets and other components and has about 65 employees in Vancouver and Dallas. China's media hailed Holley as the next Haier, the Chinese appliance giant with a factory in South Carolina. But Holley is no Haier. Only a handful of small customers have signed recent deals, and a former manager at the Vancouver office says Holley doesn't have the resources to develop next-generation technology. (A Holley spokesman says...
...center of the frenzy is the unspoiled Galle Fort, a unesco World Heritage site in the city of Galle. Protected behind the ramparts of a 17th century Dutch citadel, the area seems like something out of a time warp, featuring homes with verandas and an array of picturesque churches and mosques. There are fewer than 200 homes inside the fort, and in the past several years adventurous foreigners have purchased more than 40 of them. In many parts of the tropics, tourists are accustomed to being accosted by cyclo-drivers hawking all sorts of illegal temptations. In the fort, though...
...Another key player in the tourist renaissance of Sri Lanka is Hong Kong publisher Geoffrey Dobbs. He has restored two historic mansions in Galle: the Sun House and the Dutch House, which offer the most luxurious colonial accommodation to be found anywhere on the island. He also rents out Taprobane, a jewel of an island only a hundred meters or so off the surf at nearby Weligama (once owned by American writer Paul Bowles) that is about 30 kilometers east of Galle, and has another beach retreat an hour away at Tangalla also on the southern coast. Apart from introducing...
...prints reminds us that much of what this master of violent color first learned about art came from black-and-white reproductions. As the son of a Protestant clergyman, the young Van Gogh had an early bent for pious, even saccharine religious works, including two big paintings by Dutch-French artist Ary Scheffer that he saw in the Dordrecht Museum, Christus Consolator and The Agony in the Garden. The latter he deemed "unforgettable," adding that "long ago that same painting struck Pa the same way." Van Gogh found landscapes and rural scenes just as uplifting - first Ruisdael and Constable...