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...Holland, whether they like it or not." So far a proposal for such expulsions from the new LPF Minister for Immigration and Integration Hilbrand Nawijn has been roundly rejected by his coalition partners. Robert Roks, the principal of a special school for foreign-born children in Rotterdam's Spangen neighborhood, will likely feel the sting of any tougher government line. Every year, the city takes in 1,000 new pupils from abroad; those who do badly on a state-administered intelligence test - from Namibian child soldiers and destitute Angolese to poor kids from the mountains of Morocco - come to Roks...
...became a disciple, at a distance, of Wisconsin's Frank Lloyd Wright. His own style developed slowly. In 1928 he published a number of Cubist projects for workmen's houses which won him an appointment as City Architect of Rotterdam. He is responsible for Rotterdam's Spangen and Tuschendijken municipal housing development and numerous private houses. Critics find him the most refined and conscientious of the workers in the International Style...
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