Word: belgians
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...These days, Armstrong's fiercest rivals practically genuflect at the mention of his name, and the international press is already looking ahead to 2002, making the inevitable comparisons between Armstrong and the Tour's legendary riders, Belgian Eddie Merckx and Spaniard Miguel Indurain. But Armstrong shakes off the adulation and speculation with a will that is familiar to anyone who knows him. "My career is going to be played out year by year," he told reporters this month. "The record won?t keep me here. Happiness will...
World's fairs, those jamborees of national output--what ever happened to them? The Belgian waffles, the Futurama architecture, it all used to seem so important. Yet the U.S. didn't even bother to erect a pavilion for the one last year in Hanover, Germany. And, really, why should it have? Who needs to stand in line outside a geodesic dome to find out what America produces? Who needs a product-display center to discover Lucinda Williams? Or a monorail to take you to Philip Roth or Tom Ford? Anywhere in the world you find a movie screen...
...Human rights law has never been at the center of the conduct of foreign affairs, and Kissinger and others believe it could have a destabilizing effect. For example, there are efforts currently underway in Belgian courts to indict Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon over the 1982 massacre of Palestinian refugees at the Sabra and Shatila camps in Beirut - for which a 1983 Israeli government inquiry found Sharon "indirectly responsible." The Israelis may dismiss this as a propaganda exercise, but if the rules of immunity and cross-border prosecution begin to change, such endeavors could complicate efforts to mediate conflicts, critics...
...another plan to name a boulevard in the capital after Lumumba. That also fell by the wayside. So the best monument may, in fact, turn out to be Peck's film which is based on solid research and hundreds of interviews with key participants, including one of the Belgian secret agents sent to dispose of Lumumba's body. The film is a reminder that Patrice Lumumba's dream of independence, which inspired his fellow Africans, is not quite forgotten even today. And it is an even greater reminder that in the chaos that the Congo has become, none...
Instead, this year young Belgian designers like Olivier Theyskens and Veronique Branquinho ran with the avant-garde baton and were the must-sees. Designer Walter Van Bierendonck, a professor at the Flanders Fashion Institute and one of the Antwerp Six, the original Belgian designers to gain fame with their initial London showing in 1986, says: "Of course, the Japanese had a huge influence...