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...rale, 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...
...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...
...people - including survivors of the regime, ordinary citizens, scores of journalists and foreign diplomats - attended the opening hearing at the tribunal?s headquarters on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. The sense of history was palpable. "I came here because I wanted to know what Duch would say," said Chum Mey, 77, one of only a dozen or so former inmates to emerge alive from Duch?s notorious S-21 prison and torture center. ?If he would admit that he killed people...
...virtually illiterate and easily manipulated. I thought education would allow people to reason for themselves and be less susceptible to opportunistic movements. To read that students in some of the U.S.'s best universities support gay bashing and opposition to affirmative action and abortion rights completely shatters that illusion. MEY KHALILI Ithaca...
...rules the firm will have to write off the difference of about €2.1 billion. The main culprit was the group's insurance operations, whose investments have been ravaged by the cratering stock market. "We've not seen such volatility in the history of the world," says Jozef de Mey, chief executive of the Fortis AG insurance subsidiary. Wait a minute - aren't insurers supposed to be the stodgiest, most conservative investors around? Even if they can't forecast the future, they are, after all, the companies that other people turn to for protection against risk. Like Fortis, the entire...