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...generation of culinary bravehearts is transforming Scotland's gastronomic landscape. The notoriously sniffy Michelin guide awarded a star to two new restaurants in 2002, bringing the total number of Scottish recipients to 10. The public face of new Scottish cooking, thanks to his award-winning BBC programs and best-selling books, is Nick Nairn, the youngest Scot ever to have won a Michelin star. Nairn's latest venture is a cooking school on the Lake of Menteith, in the gateway to the Highlands. "Ten years ago nobody would have dreamed of opening a cookery school in Scotland," he says...
...profit last year: $4.69 billion) decided to pursue a $6 million claim against the government of Ethiopia for a 27-year-old suit, at a time of year when people are supposed to be focusing on the less fortunate. Company spokesman François Perroud found himself facing irate BBC Radio 4 presenter John Humphrys: "You're going to get this money whether people starve or not." Replied Perroud: "I can't quite understand your hostility." Humphrys: "There are starving people in Ethiopia, that's where the hostility, as you put it, comes from." That day, Nestlé promised...
...BBC attributed the peacefulness of Florence to a new commitment from European police forces and Forum organizers to cooperatively weed-out the infamous “Black Bloc” and “ensure that troublemakers did not infiltrate the march for peace.” There is a sense that Europe is over the Genoa bump. But the violence in Genoa was not solely the work of a few agent provocateurs. There is a nastier calculus at work when half-a-million civilians try to stop a meeting defended by 10,000 military police...
...would just make up stuff, but this time he doesn't utter a single lie for me. In the past he has pretended to be his own assistant, canceling an interview with a reporter over and over again; he has acted like a Corvette-driving loudmouth for the BBC; he has staged a fight in a fast-food restaurant for Spin magazine; he has refused to admit he was the intentionally bad choreographer in his Fatboy Slim Praise You video. He used to care...
...Britain, investigators detained, under the Terrorism Act, but later released Hassan Butt, 22, a member of the radical Al-Muhajiroun group. They are now investigating him for alleged public-order offenses. Butt, 22, once claimed he had recruited British Muslims for the Taliban. In January, he told the bbc that militants fleeing Afghanistan "will take military action in Britain." - By Andrew Purvis. With reporting by Helen Gibson/London and Senad Slatina/Sarajevo ISLAMIC OPINION New Best Friends With all the subtlety of a jackhammer, the U.S. and its allies mounted a charm offensive on Muslims ahead of a possible war in Iraq...