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...restaurant critic José Carlos Capel, who sparked the conference's biggest controversy when he lambasted the ham industry for its lack of transparency, is sure nothing will displace the product's primacy: "We had mad cow several years ago, and people stopped eating beef. Then we had those Belgian chickens with dioxin, and people stopped eating poultry for a while. But now, no one remembers either of them...
...allegedly belonged. For more than a year, authorities in Belgium and France had been arresting suspected radicals whom they allege have connections to the same network - climaxing in a Dec. 11 raid in Brussels that took 14 people into custody. Most of those arrested remain in detention as Belgian authorities continue investigating the case of what they described at the time as a looming suicide bomb plot by the group. According to police, several members of the group were known to have traveled to and from Pakistan and Afghanistan. Among those arrested in the raid and still detained is Malika...
...According to French officials, Ayachi and Gendron had left Brussels sometime before the Dec. 11 raid, but nobody knew to where. It turns out that - unbeknownst to Belgian or French authorities - Ayachi and Gendron had actually been arrested in November, after Italian police stopped the camping car in which they were entering southern Italy and discovered five illegal Palestinian and Syrian aliens hiding inside. (See pictures of Fatah vs. Hamas...
...taking pizza back to its roots," declares Mathieu Palombino, chef-owner of another Neopolitan-inspired pizzeria, Motorino, which opened within weeks of Co. last fall, in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn - "a place for big ideas and small budgets," he says. A Belgian-born Italian, Palombino trained in some of New York's most discerning kitchens - Bouley and BLT Fish (where he earned a Michelin star) - before learning to make pies with Verace Pizza Napoletana Americas, a California-based training institute, international certification body and the official U.S. representative of the original, authentic Naples pizza...
...announced last week that he plans to quit as chairman of Société Générale, one of France's biggest banks. A day earlier, a meeting of shareholders in banking giant Fortis turned nasty when investors riled by the sale of ts recently nationalized Belgian banking arm lobbed shoes and other items at chairman Jozef De Mey. De Mey stood his ground, and won an eventual vote on the sale. But the twin incidents share the same roots: public trust in the financial system - and its well-paid execs - has probably never been lower...