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...first, where to find a visual language commensurate with the horrors seen and the ones to come? Even before the war, the Cubism of Picasso and Braque had been of little interest to him. But by 1914 Beckmann was a medical orderly in the trenches of Flanders. The Belgian front, where he suffered a severe nervous breakdown, would show him fractured form with a vengeance. Especially after the raw meat and blasted earth of the trenches, why care how you broke up goblets and cafe tables? Similarly, the Expressionist and Symbolist art of the prewar era, with its yearning toward...
...toddler was the sole survivor when a Sudan Airways Boeing 737 crashed 10 minutes after takeoff, killing all of the remaining 115 passengers and crew. The pilot had reported technical difficulties and was attempting to return to Port Sudan airport when the plane went down. Free at Last LAOS Belgian photojournalist Thierry Falise and French cameraman Vincent Reynaud were released a week after receiving 15-year prison sentences on charges of weapons possession and obstruction of justice, following a two-day trial criticized by international press groups and human-rights organizations as a sham. The two journalists were arrested...
...Belgian Thierry Falise, 46, and Frenchman Vincent Reynaud, 38, weren't so fortunate. The two Bangkok-based journalists, along with their translator, Naw Karl Mua, 44, a Hmong-American pastor from St. Paul, Minnesota, had followed in our footsteps, looking to report the story for themselves before time runs out for the Hmong. On June 4 these three foreigners were walking out of the jungle near the northeastern Laotian province of Xieng Khouang when their party, which included heavily armed Hmong rebels acting as escorts, came under fire from government troops. During the firefight someone was killed...
...scores every time. - With reporting by Michiko Toyama/Tokyo No, they don't serve waffles Famous as the home of the European Union, sumptuous chocolates and moules/frites, Belgium is staking a claim as a powerhouse of women's tennis. Two weeks ago, in the French Open women's singles final, Belgians Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin-Hardenne faced each other across the net, with Henin-Hardenne running out the winner 6-0, 6-4. The match was not only the first-ever all-Belgian final, it sealed the women's places as second and third in the world rankings, sandwiched between...
...feel a little proud and enormously humble. After all, these people were the ones doing the great work; we'd only written about them. And since heroes, by definition, are in the business of shaking things up, more than a few of ours challenged us. Leonard Van Baelen, a Belgian who pioneered the fair-trade coffee movement in Congo, and South African AIDS activist Zackie Achmat urged TIME to keep reporting on Africa and monitor access to antiretroviral medications for AIDS sufferers. We will; when the pages of your magazine start talking to you, you tend to listen. The most...