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...other big complaint is about the introduction of contemporary art. Fumaroli wrote an indignant piece in the French magazine Beaux-Arts about the biggest show to date, an exhibition by Belgian artist Jan Fabre that was held earlier this summer in galleries containing Dutch and Flemish masterpieces. Among the highlights: a table strewn with feathered sculptures depicting the severed heads of seven owls in the same room as Van Dyck portraits, and a gigantic earthworm wriggling on upended gravestones sharing a space with 21 Rubens depictions of Marie de Medicis. The show was part of a series called "Counterpoints," designed...
...King is due to announce his plans on next Monday. That is the Belgian national day, which commemorates the coronation of the country's first King, Leopold I, in 1831. The day is usually celebrated with a grand military parade through the center of Brussels. And although Belgians have weathered such crises many times before, they will also wonder how much longer they can expect to be treated to such army displays...
...This is a management-driven company, not brand-driven," says Theo Vervloet, the chairman of trade association Belgian Brewers. "They will use salami tactics: slicing here and there in little bits. InBev has to pay off some $7 billion in debt, and it will look for savings everywhere. The Anheuser-Busch family has been brewing for 150 years, but they will have to answer to new bosses...
...InBev itself was only created in 2004, from the merger of Belgium's Interbrew with Brazil's AmBev. It is headquartered in the Flemish city of Leuven, where the company can trace its brewing roots back to 1366. Though the board includes former Belgian Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene, the firm's power brokers are Brazilian investment bankers who have placed an accounting technique known as zero-based budgeting at the heart of their global strategy. It compels divisions to justify all costs for each year, rather than simply adjusting the baseline spending from the previous year...
...Belgian unions warn their comrades in St. Louis to expect the worst. "I wouldn't trust their promises," says Alfons De Mey, president of the 110,000-member Belgian food and hotel workers union. "InBev is all about money. We've seen centuries-old breweries close down here in Belgium, and there are now only two big ones left in the country, in Leuven and Jupille." He says beer-making has changed beyond recognition in recent years. "Before it was run by brewers, but now it's bankers...