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...Leeuwen competed for the Dutch national team on the Junior World Cup circuit when he was in high school, but hopes...
...Open Forum could be used to support the meeting of the minds within the dutch project digital waterland," wrote one person who identified herself as Joop Veenis...
Probably the best thing that can be said for the show's copious gallery of Madrid flowerpieces by Juan de Arellano and others from the late 17th century is that they are skilled exercises in a trivial genre; they descend from earlier Dutch conventions-those towering masses of tulips and roses, full of squishy virtuosity; but they lack the architectural grandeur of earlier Spanish works and promptly induce surfeit. After them, the Spanish still-life tradition nose-dived into academism and decor through the 18th century, with the single exception of the Madrid painter Luis Melendez (1716-80), whose massive...
Twenty-one top executives of the bankrupted Barings P.L.C. were fired by the company's new owners. ING Group, a Dutch company, determined that the Barings employees were either directly or indirectly responsible for overseeing the derivatives debacle that broke the British bank in February. Meanwhile, German authorities received more than 1,000 pages of documents from Singapore, which is requesting former Barings trader Nicholas Leeson's extradition to face charges of forgery...
Less than a month afterPresident Clinton blocked a $1 billion deal between Conoco Oil and Iran, the Royal Dutch-Shell Group is treading where U.S. companies now cannot. The Anglo-Dutch company acknowledged its negotiations today, but would not confirm reports that it sought the same lucrative contract that the Houston-based Conoco was forced to give up. SaysTIME business writer John Greenwald: "This shows that when you try to hurt Iran by barring American companies from doing business with it, foreign companies are only too willing to rush...