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On Tiptoe Through the Tulips: Why Holland is nervous -- and an alarming case for the entire West.(Pim Fortuyn and Netherlands politics and society)
Amsterdam
Dildos, tulips, and waffles, all on the same block: Welcome to the Netherlands, a country renowned for the bourgeoisification of vice.
I have just entered Amsterdam's red-light district in -- honest! -- an attempt to visit the Oude Kerk, the medieval "old church" that is the capital city's oldest stone building. Because the streets are so clean, orderly, and nonthreatening, you hardly realize you've entered the louche part of town, until you notice that the sickly-sweet aroma of burning hashish from the "coffeeshops" never really goes away. Then you notice display windows proffering a selection of bizarre devices and videos appealing to every ...
- Never a dull moment: Pim Fortuyn and the Dutch parliamentary election of 2002.
- Magazine article from: West European Politics Van Holsteyn, Joop J.M. Irwin, Galen A. April 1, 2003 700+ words
...will be associated with the name of Pim Fortuyn. He dominated the media and determined...than three months earlier (the List Pim Fortuyn, LPF), achieved by far the most impressive...rise and electoral success of the List Pim Fortuyn.(5) First, the campaign, in particular...
- The political legacy of Pim Fortuyn; Assassination in the Netherlands.(Could...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) May 11, 2002 700+ words
...society that seemed at peace with itself. Pim Fortuyn challenged this comfortable picture...in March. At the head of a national Pim Fortuyn List, he was running strongly in the...on the voting. On the one hand the Pim Fortuyn List, as its name implies, was the...
- The Netherlands confronts assassination and election.(Pim Fortuyn)
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Hylarides, Peter July 1, 2002 700+ words
...assassinated politician was Professor Pim Fortuyn, a flamboyant ex-Marxist who, in...liberal and social democratic opponents. Pim Fortuyn wanted to bring change to a political...total amount of seats is 150. The LPF (Pim Fortuyn List) did just that, at the expense...
- Pim Fortuyn's fate.(EDITORIALS)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times May 15, 2002 700+ words
Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES For a brief moment, Pim Fortuyn flickered on the stage of European politics, forcing...Fortuyn, leader of a party bearing his name, the List Pim Fortuyn, was close to the top of the polls before he was shot...
- Ad Melkert, meet Pim Fortuyn; Charlemagne.(Ad Melkert, Pim Fortuyn: two kinds...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) March 30, 2002 700+ words
...mutual tolerance had reached near-perfection. Then, this March 6th, local-election day, a bomb exploded. Its name was Pim Fortuyn. He is a colourful, shaven-headed, mid-50s, gay, volatile, assertive ex-professor of sociology, and the party...
- Death of an 'Extremist': The assassination of Pim Fortuyn should make us think...
- Magazine article from: National Review O'SULLIVAN, JOHN June 3, 2002 700+ words
Pim Fortuyn's assassination by an "environmental activist" in Holland, like...network of libertarian and conservative web-loggers on the Internet). Pim Fortuyn, it turned out, represented the slightly oddball pacific liberalism...
- Rightist politician's assassination stuns Netherlands: An animal-rights...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor May 8, 2002 700+ words
...the Netherlands remains somber after the shooting death of Pim Fortuyn, a controversial right-wing politician running on an anti...minorities. Polls released Sunday showed the Lijst (Party of) Pim Fortuyn (LPF) likely to be a leader among the seven main parties...
- Sudden Death : A brutal political assassination blows Holland apart--and poses...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek International McGuire, Stryker Endt, Friso Rossi, Melissa Theil, Stefan Underhill, William May 20, 2002 700+ words
...protest. What worried them was the expression it would take. Pim Fortuyn, the anti- establishment populist, was taking Dutch politics...interpretation--but far too simple. In fact, the fate of Pim Fortuyn is a cautionary tale for all of Europe. His assassination...
Source: HighBeam Research, On Tiptoe Through the Tulips: Why Holland is nervous -- and an...