Adorable video about Belgium’s language and politics.
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When I came to the center yesterday, it was clear that I had rolled in via Vélib’. “Be careful tomorrow with Vélib’,” one instructor warned me, because today’s general strike will make the bicycles extremely valuable. With at least the RER B scheduled to be out of commission, it’s entirely possible that I would have [...]
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When the Awl complains that this has been a miserable American summer, they’re mostly right, but it hasn’t been exactly a great summer in France, either. Sarkozy has decided to kick off the 2012 presidential campaign extra early by re-burnishing his xenophobic credentials, angling to get the support of the far-right Front National types–the very [...]
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Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” Fasting in the desert for forty days, Jesus is tempted to turn the rocks around him into bread. Instead of giving in to the temptation, he reaches back for a deep cut [...]
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