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Call for approval August 17 redundant?

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

Today 60 years ago that the handover took place in Indonesia. A recent appeal in the run here, in NRC, at first sight clear: "Government! Recognizing August 17, 1945 as the date of Indonesian independence, "the letter after having read more of Peter de Reuver, Nico Schulte Nordholt, Nelleke Noordervliet, [...]

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67.000 x Dutch colonial past

Friday, November 6th, 2009

The Indian Platform should stop claiming reparations. Set up for change in the collective consciousness Dutch, because it is not an Indian but a Dutch issue. Read more on Wereldjournalisten.nl>> Share this post:

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I'd rather Europe

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

With European elections coming up, I realize that in my passport nationality prefer "European" would be. I could identify with me more than 'Dutch'. This has primarily to do that I often feel ashamed for what is in this narrow, noisy Netherlands commonplace. Asylum seekers in empty jail cells [...]

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The scientific process at a university

Monday, February 24th, 2005

Rust for magazine, I interviewed Robert von Friedeburg, scientific director of the FHKW (EUR). Research is an area that universities are still distinguished from colleges. What is the strategic importance of research for a university, and how will the FHKW deal with that? How to find someone to finance research and why is it so important [...]

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Fundraising by Unicef, Greenpeace and War Child

Wednesday, October 20th, 2004

In Rust I wrote an article about how UNICEF, Greenpeace, and War Child fundraising. The occasion was a study that found that ads for poverty reduction had been pathetic. Maarten Bijl (UNICEF), Annette Cornel Lisse (War Child) and Jan Willem Dol (Greenpeace) I discussed above. They did not agree with those findings [...]

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