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With global travel in its best shape in years, Air France is enjoying the fruits of its 2003 merger with Dutch airline KLM, creating a dual-hub network with considerable global reach. Skeptics predicted the marriage would founder on Dutch resentment of notoriously overbearing French handling of past binational mergers. Yet the partnership has not only functioned better than management or labor had hoped, but has also established the sector's standard for future linkups. "Everyone else is now trying to follow. Some airlines are actually seeking to replicate it to the smallest details," says Yan Derocles, an analyst with...
...lack of polish. Such problems were evident from the concert’s first selection, Beethoven’s “Overture to ‘Egmont,’ ” op. 84. Written as incidental music for a play by Goethe, the piece depicts the Dutch opposition to Spanish rule during the 16th century.From the first measures of the Overture, each section exhibited characteristics that would persist for the rest of the program. The strings, led by principals Alex Y. Shiozaki ’09, Kathryn S. Austin ’09, and Valerie...
...live next to the Dutch Reformed Church dominee [minister]," says Evita's alter ego and creator, Pieter-Dirk Uys (pronounced ace). "He always warmly embraces Evita whenever she meets him. We respect each other's theaters." And the clergyman isn't Evita's only admirer. The walls of the foyer are plastered with thank-you letters penned by the apartheid era's superstars. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a regular visitor to Darling (he takes his wife there for their anniversary), writes: "We need you to continue to hold a mirror to our human condition." Alongside are affectionate faxes from the debonair...
...right making a range of expensive promises to boost income for the middle class and the less well-off alike. After several years of wage restraint, unions in Germany, the Netherlands and elsewhere are pushing for substantial hikes this year. Now that the economy is doing better again, Dutch workers "think it's their time to get something back," says Marco van Moort, spokesman for the biggest Dutch union, Bondgenoten FNV. Builders in the Netherlands recently negotiated themselves a 7% pay increase over 27 months, far above the inflation rate. The European Central Bank last week expressed concern that such...
...situation suddenly turn more desperate for Jews there, or did Otto Frank sense personal danger? Engel suspects the latter, referring to a theory first raised in Carol Ann Lee's 2003 book, The Hidden Life of Otto Frank, which reported that a member of a Dutch pro-Nazi party was blackmailing Frank. After Otto was heard making a remark showing skepticism of prompt German victory, on April 18 the blackmailer requested a payoff. Twelve days later Frank wrote Straus...