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Law Week Colorado's Inaugural 'Colorado 200′ List Of Largest State Firms

Law Week Colorado | Law Week Colorado | Posted 11.14.2009 | Home


LAW WEEK COLORADO DENVER -- Law Week Colorado, Colorado's weekly newspaper for lawyers, presents the 2010 'Colorado 200′ list of largest law ...

Dutch FM: Israel, Hamas must probe Gaza war crimes charges

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 11.11.2009 | Home


Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen urged Israel and Hamas to investigate war crimes allegations stemming from the Gaza conflict earlier this year....

Dutch Jews, Israelis clash over Lieberman visit to Holland

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home


The scheduled arrival of Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in the Netherlands Wednesday has touched off a rare display of discord between the local J...

Tokai Challenger Leads World Solar Challenge at Halfway Point

AllAboutElectric | AllCarsElectric | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home


With the leading vehicles just passing the halfway point in the 3000 km World Solar Challenge, the Tokai University(Japan) Challenger leads the pac...

Switzerland, Slovakia qualify for World Cup

AP | STUART CONDIE | Posted 10.14.2009 | Home


— Switzerland and Slovakia earned Europe's final two automatic berths for next year's World Cup on Wednesday night, while Argentina tried to beat out Uruguay and Ecuador for South America's last certain spot in the 32-nation field.

Costa Rica played at the United States, which clinched its sixth straight berth last weekend, and the Ticos hoped to stay ahead of Honduras and gain the final automatic place from North and Central America and the Caribbean.

Portugal, Greece, Slovenia and Ukraine finished second in their groups and joined Bosnia-Herzegovina, France, Ireland and Russia in the European playoffs. They will be drawn into four pairs on Monday, and the winners of home-and-home, total-goals matches on Nov. 14 and 18 will qualify for next year's 32-nation field.

By the end of Wednesday, 23 of the 32 nations will have been determined for next year's tournament in South Africa.

In addition to the U.S., Mexico had ensured a berth in CONCACAF, while Denmark, England, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Serbia and Spain had clinched automatic berths in Europe. Brazil, Chile and Paraguay had earned berths from South America, and Australia, Japan, North Korea and South Korea won Asia's spots. Ghana and Ivory Coast joined host South Africa, which qualified automatically as host.

Turning the Corner on Drug Law Reform

Norm Stamper | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics


Norm Stamper

Australians are acutely aware that the U.S. is and has been since 1971 the chest-thumping, fist-banging four-star general in the global war on drugs. Their willingness to stand up to our bullying ways is growing.

Anne Frank gets her own YouTube channel

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 10.02.2009 | Home


Perhaps the most famous child of the Holocaust was Anne Frank. She is known, of course, for the diaries she kept as a teenager in Holland, hiding from...

Video: Why Did Lewis Resign?

MSNBC | MSNBC | Posted 10.01.2009 | Home


Mike Holland, of Holland & Company, and Donald Powell, fmr. FDIC chair, discuss the reasoning behind Ken Lewis' resignation as Bank of America CEO...

4 of 6 escaped wolfdogs recaptured in Holland Township

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 09.30.2009 | Home


David Gard/For The Star-Ledger Cliff Zager of Holland walks with some of his dogs on his property.HOLLAND TOWNSHIP -- Six wolfdogs escaped from th...

Wolfdogs escape Holland Township home again

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 09.30.2009 | Home


David Gard/For The Star-Ledger Cliff Zager of Holland walks with some of his dogs on his property.</form HOLLAND TOWNSHIP -- Six wolfdogs escap...

Wolfdogs escape Holland home again

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 09.30.2009 | Home


David Gard/For The Star-Ledger Cliff Zager of Holland walks with some of his dogs on his property.eighbors say they like the dogs and think Zager ...

Chevron seeks Ecuador liability in pollution case

AP | Posted 09.24.2009 | Home


Chevron Corp. on Wednesday filed suit against the government of Ecuador for trade violations, an effort to protect against a potentially negative ruling in a separate $27 billion suit over environmental damage.

Chevron accuses Ecuador of "exploitation" for its pursuit of an ongoing lawsuit over environmental damage the plaintiffs allege Texaco caused in the Amazon rain forest between 1972 and 1990. Chevron, the second-largest U.S. oil company, acquired Texaco in 2001.

Chevron claims Texaco already paid millions to clean up the region as part of a 1998 agreement with the government and is not liable for further damages. Company officials also have said Texaco's former partner, state oil company Petroecuador, continued to pollute the region after Texaco departed.

Chevron's complaint against Ecuador was filed with the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, Netherlands. It effectively seeks international arbitration of the environmental dispute, which would be legally binding.

In the filing, Chevron says Ecuador is trying to shift its own share of liability for any remaining environmental damage to Chevron, as well as liability for Petroecuador's own oil operations since 1992 and damage caused by "government-sanctioned colonization and agricultural and industrial exploitation of the Amazonian region." It says the nation's conduct has violated investment agreements and Ecuador-U.S. trade agreements.

Dutch delay 13-year-old sailor's worldwide trip

AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 09.28.2009 | World


UTRECHT, Netherlands — A 13-year-old girl's plan to sail solo around the world was called "undeniably daring and risky" by Dutch judges Friday. ...

Is 13-Year-Old Too Young to Sail Around the World?

GroundReport.com | GroundReport.com | Posted 09.26.2009 | Home


Laura Dekker from the Netherlands is 13 years-old and wants to sail around the world alone to break a world record. On her website [nl] she introduces...

Abortion Ship Forced To Cease Operations After Passage Of Dutch Pregnancy Law

Diana Whitten and Anita Schillhorn van Veen | Posted 09.07.2009 | World


Diana Whitten and Anita Schillhorn van Veen

Recent changes to Dutch abortion law have caused international abortion provider Rebecca Gomperts to cancel upcoming campaigns for her renowned organization Women on Waves.

Dutch Return Severed Head Of King Badu Bonsu II To His Descendants In Ghana 171 Years Later

AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 08.23.2009 | World


THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The descendants of an African chief who was hanged and decapitated by a Dutch general 171 years ago reluctantly accepte...

Healthcare Trends Around The World (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Morgan Korn | Posted 08.21.2009 | World


The one thing Democrats and Republicans can agree on when discussing healthcare is that the current U.S. system is not working. Forty-five million Ame...

Bosnian Serbs convicted of burning Muslims alive

AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 08.20.2009 | Home


A U.N. war crimes court convicted two Bosnian Serb cousins Monday for a 1992 killing spree that included locking scores of Muslims in two houses and burning them alive.

Yugoslav war crimes tribunal judge Patrick Robinson said burning at least 119 Muslims to death in the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad "exemplified the worst acts of inhumanity that one person may inflict on others."

He sentenced Milan Lukic to life in prison and Sredoje Lukic to 30 years.

Robinson said Milan Lukic was the ringleader in both incidents, helping herd victims into the houses, setting the fires and shooting those who fled the flames. The judgment said his cousin Sredoje Lukic aided and abetted in one of the blazes

Witnesses "vividly remembered the terrible screams of the people in the house," Robinson said, adding that Milan Lukic used the butt of his rifle to herd people into the house, saying, "Come on, let's get as many people inside as possible."

Legendary CBS anchor Walter Cronkite dies at 92

AP | FRAZIER MOORE | Posted 08.17.2009 | Home


Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the networks' golden age who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be called "the most trusted man in America," died Friday. He was 92.

Cronkite's longtime chief of staff, Marlene Adler, said Cronkite died at 7:42 p.m. at his Manhattan home surrounded by family. She said the cause of death was cerebral vascular disease.

Adler said, "I have to go now" before breaking down into what sounded like a sob. She said she had no further comment.

Cronkite was the face of the "CBS Evening News" from 1962 to 1981, when stories ranged from the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to racial and anti-war riots, Watergate and the Iranian hostage crisis.

It was Cronkite who read the bulletins coming from Dallas when Kennedy was shot Nov. 22, 1963, interrupting a live CBS-TV broadcast of the soap opera "As the World Turns."

Amsterdam is an art lover's town

Brooklyn Paper | Brooklyn Paper | Posted 08.16.2009 | Home


Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Mike McLaughlinThe Brooklyn PaperAMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS — Rust...

Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation Provides Free Musical Instruments to Schools in Need

Razoo | Razoo | Posted 08.15.2009 | Home


If you’ve ever seen the movie Mr. Holland’s Opus, you were bound to be moved by the music teacher’s dedication to his students. But...

'Sealed' with a kiss! Breukelen man does Brooklyn a big favor

Brooklyn Paper | Brooklyn Paper | Posted 08.14.2009 | Home


Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Mike McLaughlinThe Brooklyn PaperBREUKELEN, THE NETHERLANDS — The ...

Brooklyn cyclists would love Amsterdam -- a truly bike-friendly city

Brooklyn Paper | Brooklyn Paper | Posted 08.14.2009 | Home


Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Ben MuessigThe Brooklyn PaperAMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS — In this old ...

SAVE BREUKELEN! Our ancestral home is facing extinction

Brooklyn Paper | Brooklyn Paper | Posted 08.14.2009 | Home


See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Gersh KuntzmanThe Brooklyn PaperBREUKELEN, THE NETHERLANDS — The town that gave our borough its name is ...

FOX Got Holland All Wrong

Morgan Warners | Posted 08.13.2009 | Media


Morgan Warners

I've been living in the Netherlands for almost a year and like most other people from the States I showed up intrigued by the legendarily liberal poli...