Word: belgians
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...actually reality, but my reality, my way of surviving.' MISHA DEFONSECA, Belgian writer, apologizing after her best-selling memoir of surviving the Holocaust was revealed to be fake. She isn't Jewish and was never in the Warsaw ghetto, as she had claimed...
Modern advances in technology have allowed artists to push the boundaries of art further than ever before. The old guard may question: Is photography Art? Are videos Art? What would these doubters think of an artist who combines both of those media? For over a decade, the Belgian artist David Claerbout has blended both still and moving images. His work has been shown in many prominent museums, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Fortunately, Cantabridgians don’t have to travel to Paris; a survey of his innovative work is currently on display at the List Visual Arts Center...
...Smurfs, or Les Schtroumpfs as they were originally called in French, first appeared in October 1958 in the Belgian comic magazine Spirou. They were created by the Brussels-born cartoonist Pierre Culliford - better known as Peyo - and were originally mere supporting cast in his medieval Johan and Pirlouit series...
...moment, at least, there is respite in Belgium's governmental crisis. The interim cabinet means that the clock stopped on 194 days without a new Belgian government, only a couple of weeks short of the European record of 208, set by the Netherlands in 1977. But there won't be any time for a honeymoon period: no sooner had the coalition formed than 14 people were arrested after authorities foiled a plot to free an al-Qaeda suspect arrested in September 2001. "They were planning to use weapons and explosives to free him ... These means could be employed for another...
...Verhofstadt's caretaker administration has been tasked by King Albert II to manage pressing problems such as the 2008 budget, the Belgian troop presence in Lebanon, and the rise in food and fuel prices. Last Saturday, about 20,000 people took part in a demonstration called by unions to protest against the political state of paralysis and the aforementioned price hikes. Last week, the Belgian central bank said inflation would speed up next year to its highest rates of the decade, while economic growth will slow more than previously projected. On top of that, the European Commission has also warned...