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When something seems utterly unbelievable, it perhaps ought not to be believed. Dutch television broadcaster BNN provoked an international uproar this week when it announced plans to air a live TV game show pitting rival kidney patients against one another in pursuit of a donor organ. But when the show ran on Friday, it proved to be a hoax...
...Corduff is just back from The Hague, where he'd gone to the centennial AGM of the Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell to berate the company over its plans to run a six-mile high-pressure gas pipeline through his neighborhood. The pipe would connect the massive Corrib gas field, 50 miles out to sea, to a 400-acre refinery being built in nearby Ballinaboy. When Shell's surveyors first showed up on his land in 2000, Corduff showed them the gate. By the time they returned in June 2005, armed with a compulsory purchase order, a court injunction...
...relatively small Dutch TV network, targets a youth audience, frequently using shock tactics. Recent shows have included on-air drug use, in an educational program on illicit substances, and a documentary in which young people facing death from incurable diseases tell about their lives and the social prejudices they encounter...
...chance for a kidney for the contestants is 33%. This is much higher than that for people on a waiting list.' LAURENS DRILLICH, chairman of Dutch broadcaster BNN, defending a new reality-TV show in which three contestants vie for the kidneys of a terminally ill woman...
...also unclear what exactly Counter’s organization does. The Harvard Foundation’s supposed commitment to promoting intercultural and racial understanding did not stop it from pulling sponsorship of a 2006 panel featuring Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the former Dutch parliamentarian and human rights activist whose 2004 film, "Submission," detailing mistreatment of Muslim women in the Netherlands, triggered the murder of its director, Theo Van Gogh. Despite the fact that Hirsi Ali was set to appear with several other panelists, including Ahmed Mansour, a leading scholar and defender of Islam, many students, including members of the Harvard Islamic...