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When Belgian fashion first strutted onto the international catwalks in the early '80s, Antwerp took the credit - and rightly so. It was graduates of that city's fashion school - Dries van Noten, Ann Demeulemeester, Walder van Beirendonck, Dirk van Saene, Dirk Bikkembergs and Marina Yee, a.k.a. the[an error occurred while processing this directive] Antwerp Six - who were forging a distinctive deconstructionist style, a world away from Belgium's moules-frites-and-cherry-beer reputation...
...least credit cards still work. An upscale supermarket was packed as I stocked up for what might be a long siege of Lebanon. I found myself in a grim race with another man grabbing bottles of orange juice, each of us trying to get as many as we could before the other could claim them. This will be a savage place in two weeks if this keeps up, I thought...
HIZBALLAH Formed in 1982, the terrorist group has grown into a national movement under Sheik Hassan Nasrallah. Many in Lebanon credit Hizballah with forcing Israel to end its 18-year occupation...
...introducing some lubricious poems by the 17th century Earl of Rochester that had been published by Princeton University Press, the magazine went out of its way to refer to "the forces of censorship" in a complimentary way: "It is to their credit, and to the credit of the Postmaster's General's Office, that they have permitted the book to be freely sold and to travel unhindered through the mails these last 12 years." Attentive ears could detect the sound of sucking up to the Post Office. (Those kind words would fall on deaf ears...
...fall of 2004, the College put in place restrictions prohibiting students from receiving academic credit or funding for study in 26 countries—including Lebanon—under travel warning by the U.S. State Department, citing concerns about student safety and liability issues...