Word: erasmus
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...that anyone has asked, but I think that a fitting and useful memorial for the World Trade Center site would be a library. Not a great, imposing library with white marble busts of Keats and Erasmus, or antique reading lamps with shades of green glass, or vaults of rare manuscripts, or stacks that rise to heaven, or stone animals out front. (James Baldwin wondered if the New York Public Library lions were posted to protect him when he was inside, or to keep him out.) What I have in mind is a regular old local branch library, with kids bopping...
...family crest, employed a butler named Herman, wore tailored Italian suits and oversized ties, and reveled in his homosexuality. "He was like a jester, the one who holds up a mirror to the politicians and says, 'Look, you're ugly,'" notes Arthur Ringeling, a political scientist at Rotterdam's Erasmus University. Raised in a middle-class Catholic family, Fortuyn was a nominal Marxist during his university studies but later joined the Labor Party. With a doctorate in sociology, he became a professor at Erasmus in 1990. Though he was popular with his students, a university committee judged his scholarly efforts...
...idea of integrating minorities, but it hasn't happened fast enough to counter the lure of a figure like Fortuyn. First- and second-generation foreign-born amount to about 17% of the Dutch population, roughly the same as in other West European countries and the U.S., says Erasmus migration expert Han Entzinger. In Rotterdam itself, the figure rises to 45%, and in some neighborhoods - and many schools - it is much higher. To promote integration, the Netherlands in 1998 began requiring new immigrants to take mandatory Dutch lessons. As asylum seekers choose other destinations, their annual rate of entry...
...soon De Jong was also convinced. That night he spoke with Albert Osterhaus, chairman of the virology department at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, where virologist Eric Claas had analyzed the suspect virus using a panel of reagents derived from flu strains isolated and maintained by Webster. Claas had first determined that the virus was H5N1, well before the CDC and Mill Hill. At the outset even he did not believe it. An H5 infection in humans was unheard of. He too assumed the H5 was a contaminant...
...gloomy illuminati who are most often unseen, though they worry a lot about people. Toward the novel's end there is a confrontation scene in which a dozen prominent (though frustrated and deeply saddened) humanists reveal themselves to be apes, and bid the dreary world of men goodbye. Erasmus delivers a sanctimonious homily of farewell: "Where we come from, we say that if a...person is on his knees you offer him your hand. If he rejects it you offer him both hands. And even if he rejects them both you have to help him up. But if, even...