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There are some amazingly ugly subjects, like the imaginary Bust of Grotesque Man in Profile Facing to the Right. Leonardo delighted in these. The pleasure that he took in human ugliness was almost as intense as the delight afforded him by the spectacle of beauty. Granted, cosmetic considerations were less to the fore in 16th century Europe than they would be four centuries later. Granted, social attitudes toward the repellent aspects of old age were different. And yet it is difficult to look at his numerous drawings of horribly, freakishly ugly old people--which would be assiduously copied by other...
...Authorities hailed it as Vietnam's biggest-ever tax-fraud bust?proof, they claim, that the country is serious about tackling fraud and corruption. But another factor has tongues wagging both in Vietnam's boardrooms and at its noodle-soup stands. Thieu and his older brother Nguyen Trong Thang were known not just for their wealth?their private company boasted estimated revenue of $60 million in 2002?but for who they are. Born in Vietnam but raised in France, the brothers are Viet Kieu, as people who fled the country following the fall of Saigon in 1975 are known. Once...
...intermediary between prostitutes and social services. "Over 90% of the girls in Paris are controlled by Mafia pimps, but no one's going to denounce their traffickers under duress with handcuffs on." French police don't appear to be under any such illusion. "We're not going to bust pimps by arresting prostitutes," says Dominique Achispon, assistant general secretary of the National Union of Police Officers. "It's very hard for a prostitute to say who she works for. Most girls who inform on pimps are either found dead or vanish without a trace." Boucher claims the new law will...
Palmisano's optimism might seem forced amid the wreckage left behind by the tech bust, with cash-strapped companies wary of spending on technology that often doesn't live up to expectations. Such skepticism is one of the principal reasons that IBM's 2002 earnings, which will be announced this week, are expected to drop more than 10%, a reversal from the solid, double-digit annual earnings growth that Gerstner consistently achieved--and that Palmisano is promising for 2003. That pledge will be all the harder to keep at a time when Wall Street is taking a much closer look...
...regulated by the Soviet Union and Iran. But when the Soviet regime collapsed, so did governmental control. Today poachers supply some 300 tons of caviar per year, 10 times as much as legal traders. The temptations are great in a region where economic opportunities are scarce. In a typical bust, smugglers in the Russian county of Astrakhan managed to load an air-force cargo plane with almost 350 kilograms of sturgeon roe before it was seized by the Federal Security Service...