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...victim of art theft before—including in 1976, when thieves took six paintings worth more than $380,000 from President Derek C. Bok’s Elmwood home. The paintings—including two by French impressionist Eugene Boudin and one by 17th century Dutch painter Gerrit Berckheyde—were recovered the next year, The Crimson reported at the time...
...opium.) But its most interesting subtext is the Code of the Kiss. In movies of the day, the hero was destined to wind up with the first woman he meaningfully kisses. Man and wife share several intimate scenes in their bedroom, but they never kiss. Late in he film, Gerrit surrenders to his old amour and plants a passionate one on Nellie. It seals their fate - and, terminally, Taou Yuen...
...Administration seems to expect other countries to share in the body count. If the U.S. had treated other nations as equals, they might be willing to salvage the situation for a fumbling U.S. Administration and a feeble British government. The U.S. cannot afford another Vietnam. Nor can the world. GERRIT DEJONG Nesoddtangen, Norway...
...foes avoided the personal attacks that characterized the last election and contributed to the demonization, and perhaps even the murder, of Fortuyn. But with arguments against Labor policies failing to dent Bos' popularity, the CDA and its preferred coalition partner, the Liberals, have now taken aim. Liberal leader Gerrit Zalm accused Bos of lying about Labor's financial plans. And CDA M.P. Gerda Verburg went a bit lower. "We're told the whole day how charming and attractive Bos is," she told one newspaper last week. "I can see he's got a nice ass, but a nice ass alone...
...NETHERLANDS Fortuyn Lives The ghost of murdered conservative leader Pim Fortuyn looms large over the run-up to the Netherlands' Jan. 21 general election. In campaigning, many centrist politicians have adopted his controversial positions on issues like immigration, crime and education. Freedom and Democracy Party leader Gerrit Zalm has embraced the notion that the country can no longer take in immigrants: "The Netherlands is full," he now says in his speeches. Social Democrat leader Wouter Bos is doing a more effective Fortuyn impersonation - "Only Dutch to be taught in our schools" - and is leading in the polls. Ironically, Fortuyn...