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...became the embodiment of Kylián’s social critique.The Wang Theatre’s heavy curtains first opened to reveal a white dress and a male dancer. Amidst a tense silence, a spotlight rested on the ruffled costume. The lighting was simple, a method used by Joop Caboort throughout the show to emphasize the minimalist nature of Kylián’s choreography. A dancer, concealed behind another until this moment, shifted to the right quickly and almost imperceptibility, revealing that there are in fact two. Without regard for a definitive start or end, the curtain...
...right" [April 14]. Playwright David Mamet recently abandoned his lifelong allegiance to the Democratic camp, saying its worldview could be summed up thus: "that everything is always wrong." This totally negative attitude will be the Democratic Party's downfall unless it can return to a more centrist position. Joop van der Lijn, Palmerston North, New Zealand...
...Fortuyn's own party, the List Pim Fortuyn, is faring badly. But as his once-radical ideas turn into the conventional political wisdom, Fortuyn is emerging a posthumous winner. "It's as if Fortuyn weren't dead - he might as well still be here," says Amsterdam-based media consultant Joop Nederstigt. - By Andrew Rosenbaum/Amsterdam...
...good. The Netherlands in many respects is Europe's model economy, with an official unemployment rate of 4%--the lowest in the E.U. except for tiny Luxembourg, at 2.8%. Its boom helped the country cut joblessness more than 50% since the early 1990s. "We're working at capacity," says Joop Hartog, professor of economics at the University of Amsterdam. "We should be happy with that." An active labor policy bolsters the boom by offering tax credits for low earners, more child-care and after-school facilities to ease women's path into employment, and more intensive mentoring--or hectoring...
...Open Forum could be used to support the meeting of the minds within the dutch project digital waterland," wrote one person who identified herself as Joop Veenis...