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Millet is well aware that many Europeans still view U.S. private-equity groups as unscrupulous financiers "who will debone a company and chop it up into slices like a sausage." But with time, as more and more companies on the Continent get bought and resold, he believes people will understand that private equity is a positive force. "We are important actors, and we are creating value, we are creating jobs, and we are developing firms. Little by little, that message is getting through," he says. Perhaps, but the Europeans are still on the lookout for locusts. --Reported by Daren Fonda...
...anger and contempt for the defendant a day earlier. Calmly, remorselessly, he insisted on the righteousness of his act, repeatedly stating he would do the very same thing again if he got the chance. Bouyeri said that in his worldview, there is a "law that instructs me to chop off the head of anyone who insults Allah and the Prophet." He stressed he did not hate Van Gogh, who he described as a man driven by conviction, though the filmmaker infuriated many Muslims with his controversial film Submission which linked the abuse of Muslim women to Koranic verse. Bouyeri...
...been great to see him use his anarchic energy again." O'Toole appreciates the opportunity but understands that "the film isn't about me, it's about the dog. Admittedly, the dog isn't all that good an actor, but with the right cuts and perhaps a lamb chop, we'll get the job done...
Elsewhere around the country, boutique farms are producing game birds, ducks and free-range chickens (which are allowed to roam and forage for natural food to add flavor and improve texture). Fresh buffalo meat is now regularly supplied to chefs such as Jimmy Schmidt of the London Chop House in Detroit by American Spoon Foods in Petoskey, Mich. As Americans discover that wild mushrooms grow in their woods and ma-che, or lamb's-lettuce, in their fields, they are paying premium prices for such produce at places like the Irvine Ranch Farmers Market in Los Angeles and Balducci...
...arrangement pleases his wife as well. She says it underpins "my sense that I can pull off this life--job, three kids." The kids like it too, and Anya pitches in with enthusiasm. "I'll now let her chop with the sharp knife, and I won't even watch her," Stoloff says proudly. "Ilena's kind of flabbergasted...