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BIKESMITH Work stopped at the headquarters of Koga, the high-end-bicycle manufacturer, during the sprint event at the 2004 Athens Olympics. The Netherlands-based company had sponsored star cyclist Theo Bos, and even watching on TV, managing director Wouter Jager, 48, knew his boy was struggling...
...Eindhoven, hundreds of Philips employees sit around endless rows of tables. Split into small groups, staffers of the Amsterdam-based firm--maker of everything from lightbulbs and toothbrushes to TVs and X-ray machines--get to work. "We're not always an easy company to deal with," says Theo van Deursen, boss of Philips' lighting division. From a platform in the center of the vast space--still latticed with girders and pipes, its walls temporarily lined with giant TV screens--Van Deursen lays down a challenge. "We have to find ways to make the company more simple," he says...
...from violence wreaked by alienated terrorists can create still more alienation among peaceful, moderate professionals. Martijn de Koning, an anthropologist at the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World in Leiden, the Netherlands, interviewed a group of twentysomething Dutch Muslims before the 2004 murder of Theo van Gogh by a young Dutch Moroccan angry at the filmmaker's on-screen portrayal of Islamic culture. Back then, De Koning found his subjects were outraged by the fact that it was tough to be Muslim in the Netherlands. By contrast, three years on from the Van Gogh affair...
...every day wondering, 'What do I need to believe?'" He also exhorts religious conservatives to "live or die" by the belief that life starts at conception. Evangelical support has led to a recent Huckabee surge in Iowa, and this ad could boost those numbers further. But so much theo talk might worry Huckabee's media sympathizers...
...hours in the arena is a strenuous workout. The mightily authentic shields, tridents and helmets weigh a daunting 3 kg all together, and I retired limp-wristed after only a fleeting bout in full apparel. Theo, made of sterner stuff, held his own in some simulated savagery that required throwing tridents javelin-style. I was happy to console myself with dinner at the hotel's rooftop, three-Michelin-star La Pergola restaurant, with views of the Colosseum. A two-hour course costs $580 for up to eight people (aged 12 and up) and will run throughout the Christmas school holidays...