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...Antique Perhaps pinching ideas from grandma's parlor, or else the movie Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Dutch master Marcel Wanders delivers a witty take on chintz. His New Antique collection for Capellini is cool yet cozy - some combination. "We can no longer fall in total awe at a tube being bent," he declares, explaining his elegantly playful antimodernism. www.capcon.it...
Neither could Dutch tulip-bulb speculators in the mid-1600s nor American day traders in the dotcom boom of the late 1990s nor even Chinese investors in the early 2000s. The history of investing demonstrates that there is no faith stronger than that of newbies plunging into a molten market. And that certainly describes China today. Emboldened by last year's 130% rise in the Shanghai Composite Index--which made Shanghai one of the best-performing exchanges in the world--first-time punters like Du have been storming into Chinese stocks, ending the market's five-year slump...
Next time you reward Rex for fetching the paper, leave the doggy biscuits in the cupboard and pour him a cold beer instead. Thanks to one Dutch inventor, parched pooches now have their very own brand of booze. Arjan Berendsen first got the idea for Kwispelbier (Waggy Tail Ale in Dutch) after an afternoon's hunting. "I felt bad that the dog could only drink water while my wife and I were enjoying our beer. After all, he'd done all the work...
...Relations between the 569,000 whites, 6 million blacks, 675,000 Indians and 95,000 mixed-raced coloreds are better than in South Africa's three other provinces. A majority of Natal's whites are of British background and are generally regarded as more liberal on racial issues than Dutch-descended Afrikaners. Moreover, many whites respect the Zulus for their strong tribal loyalty, resourcefulness and reputation as fierce warriors. Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, who would probably be the Prime Minister in a racially mixed government, is popular with many whites because he supports capitalism and opposes violence. Such positions have...
...brightly colored figures. The messages I LOVE GOD and WE ARE SPECIAL are written in a child's neat block letters. At the bottom of the picture, a little girl named Laketa wrote her name. On a hot July night last year, Laketa awaited her turn in a double-Dutch jump-rope game on the walkway of her building. Suddenly, the taunting chants of warring gangs filled the air, and gunfire broke out. A bullet pierced Laketa's chest, and she fell to the pavement. She died on the hospital operating table. Laketa was nine years...