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...tribute to Hergé's creation. And the new Magritte Museum in Brussels was also long overdue, says Charly Herscovici, head of the Magritte Foundation: "Brussels needs a Magritte museum just like Paris has a Picasso museum and Amsterdam a Van Gogh museum." Housed in the prim, neoclassical Hotel Altenloh just a stone's throw from the Royal Palace, the Magritte Museum is part of the complex of buildings that comprise Belgium's Royal Museums of Fine Art. But the sober-minded setting is something of a deception: echoing the artist's mischievous streak, the museum's windows have been...
...Dicke had been destined to head Altenloh Brinck & Co. (ABC), a screw manufacturer that has been run by his father's family for five generations. But he left that business to seek his fortune in the online world with Geibel. Their initial idea was to build a trading platform on the Internet to bring together buyers and sellers of industrial fasteners such as nuts, bolts and screws - the very products ABC makes. But the old-line manufacturers balked. In fact, Dicke's father was among Matchbid's foremost opponents, arguing that the Internet could destroy his business by increasing price...
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