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...Reid was off again, this time to Brussels, where he applied for yet another new passport; an embassy spokeswoman says his previous one was worn. He stayed at the Hotel Dar Salam in the Belgian capital's Arab quarter, where travel agencies offer bus trips to North Africa and the air smells of figs, oranges and cous-cous. On most days, Reid walked into the city center to send e-mails from the Easynet Internet cafe...
...married the photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, who was made the Earl of Snowdon. She told friends that she decided to accept his proposal when she learned that Townsend was to wed a Belgian woman. Snowdon introduced Margaret to an even wider world of artists, actors and writers. But within seven years, their marriage was in decay. Though they would hold things together while their children, David and Sarah, were growing up, both of them were finding companionship elsewhere. For a while Margaret found some with actor Peter Sellers. She reportedly seduced him on the drawing-room sofa at Kensington Palace...
...Reid was off again, this time to Brussels, where he applied for yet another new passport; an embassy spokeswoman says his previous one was worn. He stayed at the Hotel Dar Salam in the Belgian capital's Arab quarter, where travel agencies offer bus trips to North Africa and the air smells of figs, oranges and cous-cous. On most days, Reid walked into the city center to send e-mails from the Easynet Internet cafe...
Jacques Rogge, the urbane and witty Belgian surgeon who was elected president of the International Olympic Committee in July, is quietly - but decisively - setting a new tone for the governing body of the Olympic movement. Acting like a CEO trying to get control over runaway costs and a bloated bureaucracy, Rogge has cut expenses by reducing the number of I.O.C. staff members attending the Games. He has also made it clear that his style is very different from that of his predecessor, Juan Antonio Samaranch, a man of expensive tastes. Rogge, a three-time Olympic competitor in yachting, is forgoing...
...DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO Show You're Sorry The government dismissed Belgium's apology for its role in the 1961 killing of Patrice Lumumba, postcolonial Congo's first Prime Minister, but demanded reparations. A Belgian parliamentary report found that the former colonial rulers bore "moral responsibility" for the assassination...