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...both studied law in Antwerp and really wanted to see Harvard because it has a good law school," said Berx, who was carrying a formidable-looking camera...
Since 1991, Kancheli and his wife Lula have been exiles from Georgia. They have lived in Berlin, and will soon move to Belgium, where he will become composer in residence for the Antwerp Royal Orchestra. Yet Georgia is never far from his thoughts: one of his most recent works is called Trauerfarbenesland ("The Sorrow-Colored Land"). "I can't characterize my music as religious, although religious music is very close and dear to me," says Kancheli, a devout Orthodox Christian. "When a person goes into a church, synagogue or mosque where there's no service going on, there...
...Thaddeus Hutyra Antwerp, Belgium It's too late for yeltsin to learn any lessons. Before invading Chechnya, he should have remembered the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan and the fact that it took czarist armies nearly 50 years to subdue the Chechens in the mid-19th century. Yeltsin should seek a peaceful and humanitarian solution in Chechnya now. The Soviet invasion and defeat in Afghanistan led to the fall of the Soviet empire. Similarly, the invasion of Chechnya could eventually unravel the Russian Federation. Furthermore, the events in Chechnya raise serious questions about peace and stability in central and south Asia...
...there was talk of herding Tutsi into certain regions, an apartheid imposed by blacks on fellow blacks. Any effort by Tutsi to reassert themselves met with a vicious and murderous response. "There was bludgeoning of public opinion," argues Philip Reyntjens, professor of law and politics at the University of Antwerp in Belgium. "Ethnicity does not necessarily have to give rise to violence, but one can easily manipulate ethnicity to throw people against one another...
Rubens, perhaps the greatest name in seventeenth century Flemish art, worked primarily in the cosmopolitan city of Antwerp. During the Protestant Reformation, Antwerp was torn apart by fierce religious battles. Only when the devout Catholic Spanish archdukes Albert and Isabella were installed there as governors in 1599 was hope restored to the city. Thereafter, Antwerp experienced a brief renewed Golden Age in business and the arts, and Rubens played an instrumental role. As Albert's and Isabella's court painter, he led an artistic propaganda campaign to proclaim Catholic dominance in the area. Assisted by his students and colleagues, Rubens...