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Column | A procession of children on their way to ruin
At the Spinoza Lyceum in Amsterdam, history teacher Cees Koole had set up an exhibition about the thirty -nine Jewish...
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What does NRC think | Defense must explain why she needs the space
This is the daily commentary from NRC. It contains opinions, interpretations and choices. They are written by a Group of...
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‘Only now I realize how venomous she can be’
'During my PhD research in Scotland, I wanted to go to my family in the Netherlands in between the research....
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Thousands of Canadians are being evacuated due to forest fires, a state of emergency
On Wednesday, the board of the Canadian province of Manitoba called around 17,000 inhabitants of the northern and western parts...
TV review ‘Good evening Netherlands’ as an inspiration for quiz: from which TV programs do these quotes come?
Does one talk show host say to another: "How are your brain?" "Never," says the latter. "So I found out...
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After a draw against Willem II, Telstar holds a chance of Eredivisie: « I don’t know what I’m experiencing »
Rúnar Sigurgeirsson can crawl from misery. The defender of Willem II is hopelessly in the way when his keeper Thomas...
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On the chat at Chatgpt: Can a chatbot talk more than empathetic?
Yildiz Celie Chatgpt initially used especially for questions about nutrition. But after a broken relationship, she also started to turn...
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A new natural disaster is lurking for buried Swiss mountain village of Blatten
For the inhabitants of Swiss villages located in the valley of the Lötschental, the worries are not yet over. On...
« Nice and cheap fly to the sun! » You will no longer see that advertising in the streets of Nijmegen
If you are waiting for the bus in Nijmegen, you will soon no longer see any advertising for flying holidays,...
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Kenya’s most famous writer Ngugi Wa Thiong’o mastered the African power squads over the hate
"He has made an indelible impression on how we think about our independence, social justice and the use and abuse...
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An American court partially flutes Trumps tax policy. What now?
Another unexpected turn in the trade war, but now one that was not caused by the unpredictable Donald Trump itself....
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Column | Melancholy
My wife is one of those people with dementia who likes to move to music. She entirely absorbs in it,...
