Word: belgians
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...Nuns on Trial in Rwandan Genocide Four Rwandans, including two Roman Catholic nuns, went on trial in Brussels in connection with the 1994 genocide in the Central African country once administered by Belgium. They pleaded not guilty to assisting the Hutu killers. The trial is the first under a Belgian law allowing charges to be brought in the country for human rights crimes committed anywhere...
...investment, the ship is somewhat akin to a $262 million, 12-decker mobile home: it starts to depreciate as soon as it's driven off the lot. But for residents, investing is not the point. "At no time do we discuss with them a return," says Fredy Dellis, the Belgian-born chief executive of ResidenSea. "What we're selling is a unique lifestyle." The World's maiden voyage is not until January 2002. But the drawing board is dazzling, with plans for onboard art exhibitions, a Swiss-run spa, a full-size tennis court and driving ranges, a retractable marina...
...Paula Romero, 29, was born in Spain, has an English husband and lives in Brussels, where she is pursuing an arts degree at a Belgian university. "A true European is someone who doesn't feel his or her culture is the only thing in town," she says. "Just one culture is not enough these days." Catherine Rubbens, 34, an environmental consultant in London who left the Netherlands after high school, speaks five European languages and says she feels more European than Dutch. "I notice as I start to adjust somewhere that I speak to myself in the language of that...
...life - could have broader implications, strengthening support for the idea that such common aspirations can be realized through pan-European cooperation. Expanding access to the good life, for instance, depends on the preservation of Europe's open market and the easy availability of such delights as French wine, Belgian beer, Italian pasta and Spanish beaches. And in Time's poll of 21- to 35-year-olds, 56% cited the environment, global warming and pollution as their chief long-term concern, and 40% named crime and drugs...
There are still moments when even hard-core addicts like Jacky can recapture the shiny, bright exuberance of the first few times they tried speed. Tonight, as Jacky dances at Angel's bar with a Belgian who might take her back to his hotel room, she's thinking that she'll soon have enough money to visit her children, and it doesn't seem so bad. Life seems almost manageable. A few more customers, and maybe one will really fall for her and pay to move her to a better neighborhood, to rent a place where even her children could...