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21st November, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘The Netherlands’

Fiction is Better Than This Reality

By Denis Campbell • Sep 23rd, 2008 • Category: Features
 

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“What will be the next thing that challenges us? That makes us work harder and go farther? You know, when smallpox was eradicated, it was considered the single greatest humanitarian achievement of this century. Surely, we can do it again. As we did in the time when our eyes looked towards the heavens, [...]



16-Days of Oranje Celebration

By Denis Campbell • Aug 23rd, 2008 • Category: Media
The Dutch know how to throw a party. In 2000 in Sydney, the hottest Olympic ticket was not to the Opening or Closing Ceremonies. It was to Holland House beside Sydney Harbour where the parties were so festive and long that athletes from other countries clamoured to join in and one eventually had to produce [...]



The Windmill Keeper

By Denis Campbell • Jul 20th, 2008 • Category: Politics Too
 (Reprise post)
He was the butcher in the Dutch country town of Laren.  As days became years and years decades, he served customers and dreamed of finding something else to do with his life.  When he and his wife sold their shop, he faced a dilemma. I’m too young to retire, what should I do with [...]



Budweiser, Leuven Belgium

By Denis Campbell • Jul 14th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story
Like Labatts and Brahma Beer before her, Stellaaaa’s! (Artois that is) parent company In-Bev got thirsty and gulped down St. Louis, Missouri based Budweiser Beer in one chug for a cool $52 billion dollars. Ouch.
Long the butt of Dutch jokes (in true Oklahoma vs. Texas style), Belgians are starting to flex their global financial muscles. [...]



Oil Villains, Look in the Mirror

By Denis Campbell • Jul 7th, 2008 • Category: Features, Politics
Al Gore in April said of plans to extract oil from shale, “a junkie injects drugs between their toes when the veins in their arms collapse.” We’ve talked for decades about needing to reduce energy dependence whilst driving SUVs the size of small homes, living in uninhabitable southern areas where silence is impossible with central [...]



Abstinence Pledge - How About Openness vs. Wishful Thinking

By Denis Campbell • May 25th, 2008 • Category: Features
Yesterday afternoon my wife said the two older kids (8 and 7) were talking about where babies come from and how one gets pregnant. Kids think very linearly and there is a beautiful simple innocent directness to how their minds link all questions and answers.
My daughter asked if one needed a boyfriend to get pregnant.
My [...]