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CENTRAL CINEMA II Fellini's Roma, 5:30, 9:50 Women in Love 7:35 (Weekend...
...Roma Riot For Rights To protest the halving of their social benefits, thousands of unemployed Roma in eastern Slovakia went on a spree of looting and rioting. Police and military units struggled to restore order, with the worst clashes coming in Trebisov, where groups of Roma threw rocks and bottles. Roma leaders called off protests to prevent further violence and the government agreed to pay the reduced benefits weekly instead of monthly. Prime Minister Mikulás Dzurinda defended the cuts: "For 30 years, there was not enough courage to consider whether it was normal and sustainable for those...
...attack on the Merkaz Hatorah high school. The Gagny fire made headlines across France, and on the same day, the suicide bombings of two Istanbul synagogues led newscasts around the world. But in the week before the blaze, hundreds of hate crimes were committed throughout Europe against Jews, Muslims, Roma, Pakistanis and Africans. On Nov. 10, German police discovered a large black swastika painted on the wall of an empty factory building in Marienwerder Brandenburg. On Nov. 14, a box of six Molotov cocktails was found outside a synagogue in Ivry-sur-Seine, just south of Paris...
...Taco Bell formula has been imported from the U.S. The Shanghai outlet, which opened last May, is called Taco Bell Grande. It's a fancier, sit-down restaurant, a concept that is gaining traction in China with the popularity of T.G.I. Friday's, the Hard Rock Cafe and Tony Roma's. Not surprisingly, much of the food at Taco Bell Grande is only vaguely authentic. Caesar salad is on the menu, and there are no hard-shell tacos (research found mainlanders don't like them). There are burritos, quesadillas and enchiladas, but "to be very frank, people can't remember...
DIED. TONY ROMA, 78, restaurant magnate, who opened his first barbecue shop with his partner, chef David Smith, in North Miami, Fla., in the 1970s and expanded it into an international empire; of cancer; in Hemet, Calif. His enterprise went global after a Texas financier, on a jaunt to the Super Bowl, dropped by Roma's eatery for a meal and wound up buying into the business. Today there are more than 225 Famous for Ribs restaurants scattered over five continents...