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...former Yugoslavia. But that bloody ghost is thrusting itself to the table in Brussels. The holiday season was a particularly violent one in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with all sides violating an agreed truce and killing 106 civilians. Completely fed up with the futility of his assignment, Belgian Lieut. General Francis Briquemont resigned as commander of U.N. peacekeepers in Bosnia. French General Jean Cot, chief of ( the 30,000 blue helmets in the former Yugoslavia, spoke out about his troops' "humiliation" and compared them to "goats tied to a stake...
...dessert (because who gives an entree as a gift?), there's 500 chocolate truffles (1 year, 4 months, 13 days' worth if consumed one per day) from Sweet Stuff, in the Shops by Harvard Yard, or 33 Platinum gift-wrapped balatons of Neuhaus Belgian chocolates from Cardullo's. Or what about 557 Australian candy-dipped preserved two-inch diameter apricots (that's a string of apricots 93 feet long) from Crate and Barrel, 48 Brattle Street? If your gift recipient is a pre-med and keen on staying up late to study, $1,000 will get you 166.66 pounds...
...Banquet, a comedy directed by Ang Lee, who moved to the U.S. from Taiwan. Asian-style kickboxing movies have found an eager audience in the U.S. Recently one of Hong Kong's best filmmakers, John Woo, relocated to Los Angeles to direct the action movie Hard Target (which stars Belgian-born martial-arts hero Jean-Claude Van Damme...
...Belgian bishops issued a letter saying that "Someone, however, who is competent in the matter... may, after a serious examination before God, come to other conclusions on certain points. In such a case he has the right to follow his conviction...
...Belgian police recovered two priceless works of art, Vermeer's Lady and a Maid Servant and Goya's Portrait of Dona Antonia Zarate. In one of the largest art heists of recent years, the paintings were stolen seven years ago from Russborough House, the Dublin-area home of the late Sir Alfred Beit, a private , collector. Three Irishmen and a Yugoslav were caught near Antwerp transporting the paintings, along with six other stolen works, in two rented cars...