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...April 6, 1994, a plane carrying the President of Rwanda was shot down— setting off a collapse of the nascent Rwandan government. Extremist Hutus killed the Prime Minister and the 10 Belgian troops who were protecting her, and a campaign began to rid the country of Tutsi...
...Cannes Film Festival caught a political fever last year, and Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 copped the top-prize Palme d'Or. This May anti-Bush harangues gave way to cooler fare: family dramas and open-ended mysteries. L'Enfant, by the Belgian Dardenne brothers, took the highest honor. But here are this Riviera veteran's personal palmes...
...variety of international film. The planet's largest annual trade show, photo op and schmoozathon, Cannes this year welcomed movies from Cambodia and Korea, Hungary and Kurdish Iraq. Films that will never become Sith-size hits win Cannes' Palme d'Or - as L'Enfant, another dour view of the Belgian underclass by the brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, did at Saturday night's closing ceremony. But the festival organizers, like the rubberneckers outside the Palais, are smitten by star quality. Sharon Stone, one of the few Hollywood actresses adept at radiating that old-time sexual allure, was seen...
...bills in the National Assembly that would regulate diet and exercise nationwide. Starting this fall, vending machines will be banned from all public schools and universities. Ten cities have adopted a school curriculum, based on eating well and in moderation, developed in Fleurbaix Laventie, a small town near the Belgian border. There, kids are taught to choose vegetables and fresh foods over fried and processed ones. From age 3, students work with nutritionists to learn food science and cooking, and the lessons are kept up in English and math classes. As a result, childhood obesity in the town has risen...
...nonexistent cease-fire. But the troops are under-trained, under-funded, and under-supplied. The AU’s mandate does not even extend to civilian protection; these troops cannot stop killings and are useless. And since the embarrassing quagmire of Somalia in 1993 and the killing of Belgian United Nations peacekeepers in Rwanda in 1994, there seems to be no political will to send American or European troops to fight another African...