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...surrounded by marines. Visitors then walk through a series of galleries enclosed within a giant red-walled box set up in the museum's hangar-like exhibit space. "It's like entering the cocoon of North Korean reality for a short time," says Koen De Ceuster, a professor at Leiden University's center for Japanese and Korean studies, who served as the museum's adviser. "The people live surrounded by this all the time. For them it's total. There's no escaping...
Here's a jolt from the Dutch bank cooperative Rabobank: a savings account that pays interest in coffee instead of cash. Rene de Jong, the managing director of the company's branch in Leiden, brewed the Coffee Savings Account as a way to support coffee farmers in developing countries, staying true to the company's agricultural-banking roots. Customers have to put away a minimum of about $1,000 for a three-year term to collect the annual interest of 12 bags of coffee, each of which contains 250 grams, about 8.8 ounces. That roughly amounts to a 4% return...
...current woes, and the answer is an emphatic "No." The cause of his fall, they claim, is most likely Holland Village, his 220-hectare re-creation of a Dutch city on the outskirts of Shenyang. Yang, who carries a Dutch passport, got hooked on Holland while studying at Leiden University there. The partly-finished development looks like a dystopian Disney World. Within its gates, which are flanked by massive golden lions, are the offices of Yang's local empire, some of which are housed in a replica of the Hague's International Court of Justice. In various stages of construction...
...carried forward by a group of political neophytes who are lined up against far more savvy coalition partners and political opponents. "Compare them to a normal political party and you do get a picture of headless chickens," says Peter Mair, professor of comparative politics at the University of Leiden. "But actually they've been remarkably coherent in pushing for their policies." In part that's because the Fortuynites were essentially preaching to the choir. Both coalition partners - the Christian Democratic cda of Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and the liberal VVD - would have had to be blind to miss...
...back to Memphis and Thebes respectively and reinstated the old gods. Egyptian art returned to its classic, ritualized style. And like Camelot, Akhenaten's once bustling capital became only a mythic memory. "Pharaohs of the Sun" will remain in Boston until February, then travel to Los Angeles, Chicago and Leiden, the Netherlands...