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Lessons for the President on the Art of Diplomacy

Mark Lamster | Posted 10.21.2009 | Books

Read More: European Painters, President, President Obama, Belgian Painters, Belgium, Politics, Flanders, New Books, Obama, Barack Obama, Painting, Art, Peter Paul Rubens, Books, Painters, Rubens, Books News

The painter Peter Paul Rubens has a good deal in common with Barack Obama, and the Old Master's life offers lessons that the president might well find instructive.

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Armstrong calls 2010 Tour tough, wide open

AP | GREG KELLER | Posted 10.14.2009 | Home

Read More: Milan-Italy, Italy, Monaco-California, Paris-France, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Monaco, Italia, Home News

PARIS — Lance Armstrong considers the 2010 Tour de France course "tough" because of the cobblestones sections and three punishing summit finishes in the Pyrenees.

The seven-time Tour champion attended the unveiling of the route and had lunch with French president Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday.

He also said more cyclists will have a chance to win thanks to the elimination of the team time trial.

"I think it will be much more open than last year because the TTT really eliminated some people last year and you won't have that again," Armstrong said. "Whereas this year you had three or four guys who could win the Tour, this year you'll go into the tough sections with 10 guys."

Armstrong finished third at this year's Tour after an intense rivalry with Astana teammate Alberto Contador, the eventual winner.

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The Internet Ate My Twenties

Anna Jane Grossman | Posted 10.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Newspapers, Party of Five, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Media, Belgium, Gossip, Affirmations, Living News

I'm so glad we have the Internet to feed us so, so much well-edited, well-culled information.

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Women in Hip-Hop: The B-girl Be Festival

Lauri Lyons | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment

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When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.

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We Must Stop the "Vulture Funds" That Feed on the World's Poor

Johann Hari | Posted 09.18.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, Kaunda, Zambia, Sally Keeble, Romania, Africa, Aids, Donegal International, Liberia, Maxine Waters, Profit Margins, Vulture Funds, Congo, Belgium, Michael Francis Sheehan, World News

For small sums, vulture funds buy debts racked up years ago by the poorest countries on earth. Then they take the poor country to court, and demand exorbitant and crippling returns from the debtor nations.

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Belgium Fire Kills 9 In Retirement Home

AP | Posted 09.06.2009 | World

Read More: News in Belgium, Fire Kills Belgium, Fire Rages Through Belgian, Belgian Fire Dead, Fire in Belgium, Belgiun Retirement Home Fire, Retirement Home Fire Belgium, Europe, Belgium, Belgium Fire, World News

MELLE, Belgium — A fire raged through a retirement home close to Brussels late Thursday, leaving nine people dead and three more in critical con...

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Trapped in Qatar's Labor System, a Belgian Tweets for Help

Journalism Boot Camp | Posted 08.24.2009 | World

Read More: Doha, Persian Gulf, Belgian, Middle East, Belgium, Phillipe Bogaert, Qatar, Foreign Labor, Kefalah, Twittering, Twitter, World News

Bogaert remains in limbo. He cannot leave Qatar. He cannot work for another company in Qatar without permission from his sponsor. He has not been paid since last June.

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Belgium: Helicopter Used By Inmates To Escape Prison

AP | Posted 08.23.2009 | World

Read More: Europe, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Belgium, Belgian Prison Break, Belgian Prisonbreak, Belgian Helicopter Prisonbreak, World News

BRUSSELS — Belgian authorities say three inmates made a dramatic escape from prison by helicopter. Bruges prosecutor's office spokesman Marc Fl...

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Antwerp's Diamond District Suffers In Recession

Guardian | Posted 07.24.2009 | World

Read More: Diamonds, Global Recession, Belgium, Foreign Affairs, Antwerp, Europe, Antwerp Diamonds, Recession, Advocacy, World News

Huge decline in the gem trade is affecting a small, ethnically diverse district in Belgium...

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The US Senate Apologized for Slavery. But We Ain't Gettin' 40 Acres and a Mule!

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jews, Europe, President Obama, News, Andrea Merkel, Congo, Forty Acres and a Mule, Jew, Belgian Prime Minister, North America, Guy Verhofstadt, Apology for Slavery, Swahili, Elie Weisel, African Americans, Civil Rights Disaster, German Chancellor, Genocide, Germany, Patrice Lumumba, Slavery, Belgium, Politics, Rwanda Genocide, Holocaust, Congress, American Dream, Barack Obama, Japan, Reparations, Jim Crow, Cnn, Racism, African American, Slavery Apology, Black Folks, Japanese Internment Camps, Slaves, Wolf Blitzer, Buchenwald, Rwanda, Belgian, Maafa, Politics News

We can all feel relieved there is an official acknowledgment that something terrible was done to black people. Yet the reality is way too much time has passed for this apology to really mean anything.

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EU Parliament: Conservatives Score Wins On Message Of Economic Recovery

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 07.09.2009 | World

LONDON — A volatile mix of apathy, anger and economic uncertainty translated into gains for extreme-right parties in European parliamentary elec...

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The Reality of Aid (II)

Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 10.04.2009 | World

Read More: Foreign Aid, Norway, Netherlands, Aid, United States, Luxembourg, Sweden, Humanitarian Aid, Denmark, Foreign Policy, Germany, Egypt, Switzerland, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Japan, Austria, Italy, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, Portugal, Israel, Finland, Ireland, New Zealand, Greece, Spain, World News

Only five countries (Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden) have met the United Nations' target of providing 0.7 percent of their gross national income in aid to poor countries.

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Cannes 2009 Day Nine: Parents, Palestinians and Panic

Michael Giltz | Posted 06.22.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Belgium, Palestinian, Drama, Israel, Canada, Gay, Cannes Film Festival, Comedy, Animation, Entertainment News

The critical consensus is as strong as I've ever seen at Cannes: the best film of the Festival is Une Prophete. Mind you, that doesn't mean the jury will pick it.

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Belgian City First In World To Go Vegetarian At Least Once A Week

BBC | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green

Starting this week there will be a regular weekly meatless day, in which civil servants and elected councillors will opt for vegetarian meals. Ghent ...

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"Sound Of Music" Train Station Dance: Why Is It So Popular? (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 05.13.2009 | Comedy

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A video of almost 200 people taking over Antwerpen's Centraal Station in Belgium and doing a carefully choreographed dance to the Do Re Mi song (aka M...

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Sweden Same-Sex Marriage Legislation Approved

Earthtimes | Posted 05.02.2009 | World

Read More: Sweden Same Sex Marriage, Sweden Gay Marriage, Foreign Affairs, Same Sex Marriage, Holland, Spain, Belgium, Gay Marriage, Sweden, Advocacy, Same-Sex Marriage, World News

A broad majority in the Swedish parliament Wednesday approved adoption of same-sex marriage legislation after a six-hour debate. Six of the seven part...

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J.J. Abrams Pulls 'The World's Biggest Diamond Heist'

Dygest.net Green | Dygest.net | Posted 04.18.2009 | Home

Read More: Antwerp-Belgium, Belgium, Home News

Never one to limit himself to a genre, J.J. Abrams is jumping out of the bold world of outer space and into a different sort of action. The Hollywood ...

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Belgium Opens $26M Polar Climate Change Station

AP | CONSTANT BRAND | Posted 03.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, Global Warming, Belgium, Princess Elisabeth Station, Antarctica, Green News

BRUSSELS — Belgium opened a new 20 million euro ($26 million) "zero emissions" polar science station in Antarctica on Sunday, returning to the c...

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Belgian Day Care Suspect, Kim De Gelder, Linked To Fourth Murder: Police

BBC NEWS | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

Read More: Europe, Belgium Day Care, Belgium Day Care Rampage, Kim De Gelder, Belgian Day Care, Belgium, Belgium Stabbings, World News

The Belgian man charged with killing two babies and a nurse at a creche near Brussels is also suspected of killing an elderly woman, officials have sa...

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Belgium Day Care Rampage Leaves 3 Dead, 10 Wounded

AP | SLOBODAN LEKIC | Posted 02.23.2009 | World

Read More: Belgium Attacker Bicycle, Flanders Attack, Europe, Belgium Day Care, Belgium Attacker, Belgium Day Care Attack, Flanders, Flanders Day Care, Belgium, World News

DENDERMONDE, Belgium — A young man with a gruesomely painted black-and-white face went on a rampage at a Belgian day care center Friday, stabbin...

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Not a Woman in the Picture

Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama's Cabinet, Al Gore, White House, Women's Rights, Sweden, George W. Bush, Sex Trade, Asia, Missouri, Sarah Palin, Same-Sex Marriage, South Africa, Angola, Kay Hagan, Dan Quayle, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Nancy Pelosi, Racism, Nigeria, Elizabeth Dole, Secretary of the Treasury, African-American Issues, Latin America, Speaker of the House, Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar, Netherlands, Minnesota, Barack Obama, Secretary of Energy, Condolleezza Rice, Secretary of Agriculture, Janet Napolitano, Jimmy Carter, Hillary Clinton, George H. W. Bush, Claire McCaskill, Secretary of State, Women's Issues, Civil Rights, Arizona, Laura Bush, Gay Rights, Vietnam, Slavery, Sexism, Secretary of Defense, Senate Majority Leader, Vice President, Bill Clinton, Islam, John McCain, Africa, Belgium, Secretary of Transportation, Homeland Security, Attorney General, North Carolina, Colombia, Cia Director, Cambodia, Secretary of Interior, Death Penalty, Gay Issues, Politics News

Is it a coincidence that in the world's largest economy, whose military expenditure accounts for half the global total, the most senior posts dealing with money and war are still reserved for men?

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Belgian Government Collapses After Botched Bank Bailout

AP | RAF CASERT | Posted 01.20.2009 | World

Read More: Belgian Government, Belgium, Belgian Government Falls, Belgian Bank Bailout, Socialists, World News

BRUSSELS, Belgium — Belgium's king met behind closed doors with elected officials Saturday in an attempt to resolve a political crisis that has ...

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Fourteen Arrested In Belgium On Suspected Al-Qaida Ties

AP | RAF CASERT | Posted 01.11.2009 | World

Read More: Terrorism, Foreign Affairs, Belgium, Al Qaida, Al Qaeda, World News

BRUSSELS, Belgium — Police detained 14 suspected al-Qaida-linked extremists on Thursday in raids in Brussels and eastern Belgium, including one ...

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Flag International: Global Perspectives On The American Flag

Lauri Lyons | Posted 01.10.2009 | World

Read More: Europe, Election Day, 9/11, Multicultural, Globalization, Iraq, America, England, Politics, Freedom of Speech, Muslims, First Amendment, American Flag, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Americana, Belgium, Homeland Security, European Union, Melting Pot, Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, France, Patriot Act, u.s. Foreign Policy, Patriotism, Obama Election Day, Iraq War, Religion and Politics, Identity, International Relations, Holland, Spain, World News

What is America? Growing up, I have been able to view the country from several perspectives: Black, female, first-generation American, and a former military child.

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Eleven Other Countries with Big Auto Industry Problems

Steve Parker | Posted 12.25.2008 | Business

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