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...JCVD Directed by Mabrouk El Mechri. Written by Frederic Benudis and El Mechri. With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Francois Damiens, Zinedine Soualem. From Belgium...
...heed of the Italian example." The paper L'Expression added that "genocide, torture and crimes against humanity most definitely existed in Algeria. They were the work of colonial France and its military contingent, and lasted 132 years." Le Potential, a daily in Congo, sent a similar message to the Belgium government that once reigned in that country...
...select few, flying into Beijing has also been a homecoming. Chinese coaches are just the latest "Made in China" export, and this month, many are returning so their international charges can compete against China's best athletes. Mexico and Thailand's weightlifting squads are helmed by Chinese, and Belgium's table-tennis team is also Chinese-run. Both the American and Australian diving teams are strengthened by Chinese coaching expertise. And Shawn Johnson and Bernard Lagat, top American medal prospects in women's gymnastics and men's middle-distance track respectively, depend on the ministrations of their personal Chinese coaches...
...Stolen passports can have immense consequences. In 2001, two days before 9/11, Afghan Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Masood was killed by two suicide bombers - linked to Osama bin Laden - posing as journalists. Fake Belgian passports, part of consignments stolen from Belgium's embassy in the Hague or its consulate in Strasbourg, were found on the bodies of Masood's killers...
...Mexico City's huge Aztec Stadium, unfilled even during a major game, ran out of water. At one point its official clock broke down; at another, the sound system went dead just before the playing of the Mexican national anthem. Even the host nation's 2-1 victory over Belgium in its opening match ended in chaos as tens of thousands of celebrators rampaged through the center of the capital, commandeering public buses and tearing pieces off the national monument of independence. By the time the revelry died down, 134 people had been arrested, at least 250 had been hospitalized...