Word: hollande
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...course, after a couple of seasons' service, selling these players, whose contracts were acquired for a couple of hundred thousand dollars from an African team, to a top-flight European club for a few million is part of the business plan that keeps a number of clubs in Holland and France afloat...
...primary form of tribal identification in the game worldwide remains with the national team rather than the local club. The nationalist passions aroused by international competition are plain to see at every World Cup and regional tournament: There are painful histories in play every time Germany clashes with Holland or the Czech Republic, for example, and the reason Mexican fans recently egged on their Under-21 team with chants of "Osama, Osama" had everything to do with the fact that their rivals on the night were the Under-21s of the United States. England-Argentina clashes will always call forth...
...seen around the city. "But I was told those were not for export," recalls Van der Bijl. The next day, however, he was shown a few North Korean items-original gouaches for propaganda posters, and some oil paintings in the best tradition of Socialist Realism. After his return to Holland, he received some 200 works on spec, rolled-up and unframed. Van der Bijl put in a request for hundreds more, then waited months for a second export permit. "They were worried that Westerners might make fun" of the works, Van der Bijl explains...
...awful lot of money," says Van der Bijl. But he was ultimately able to buy another 300 or so pictures at an acceptable price. Worried that permission to export them might be withdrawn at the last minute, he carted about 85 of them with him on the plane to Holland...
...Time of War, an Inspiration to her People Juliana, the former Queen of the Netherlands who died last month, was shy, informal and enormously popular with her subjects [MILESTONES, April 5]. During World War II, the German blitzkrieg of May 1940 and the subsequent occupation of Holland initially traumatized the Dutch, but eventually their resistance took on a unique character of subtle rebellion and solidarity in opposing the Nazis. Juliana was an inspiration to her people during that time, even from abroad. The year she became Queen, we looked back at her recent past and described a moving wartime plea...