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Situated in Louvain-La-Neuve, a new town some 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Brussels, the Hergé Museum is a stunning piece of architecture. Designed by Pritzker Prize winner Christian de Portzamparc, its sleek concrete, steel and glass form makes it look like a stranded ocean liner, an image that deliberately echoes Tintin's many maritime exploits. Built at a cost of $20 million, and financed by Hergé's second wife Fanny, the museum reflects Hergé's huge corpus of work, much of which has, until now, been languishing largely unseen in studios and bank vaults...
...Dial-A-Ride program, disabled people are entitled to an unlimited number of trips in licensed black taxis, subject to availability. Traveling beyond city limits can prove even more difficult than navigating urban areas, as Louis Pion finds when he takes the train from the Belgian university town of Louvain-la-Neuve near Brussels to his parents' home in Leuze-en-Hainaut, near the French border. The 23-year-old theology student, who has cerebral palsy, telephones the station a day ahead and arrives early to ensure staff set up a ramp so he can board the train...
...accepting Europe as an equal. Rather it's a question of the Bush Administration's admitting that in order to invade Iraq and scare people into re-electing Bush, it systematically distorted the truth to dupe the American people into thinking Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11. John Cronin Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
...Soviet Union, the Administration created a new enemy, terrorism. But achieving that goal has only strengthened U.S. adversaries, especially al-Qaeda. Eventually, reality will come back with a vengeance, but it is the successors to the Bush Administration who will have to deal with it. Peter Van Roy Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium...
...Soviet Union, the Administration created a new enemy, terrorism. But achieving that goal has only strengthened U.S. adversaries, especially al-Qaeda. Eventually, reality will come back with a vengeance, but it is the successors to the Bush Administration who will have to deal with it. Peter Van Roy Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium All too often, time chooses the U.S. President as Person of the Year. Bush won re-election by a very slim margin. No great performance there. And the President is by no means a revolutionary. He is responsible for invading a country under false pretenses, clamping down...