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...especially discouraging when you consider what good might be done with the funds that are used to wage misdirected political wars. Scott A. Farber Boston Prisoner of the Nazis I was stunned to see the term "Polish labor camp" in the Milestone on the death of Navajo code talker Frank Sanache [Sept. 6]. The Nazis organized and ran the German concentration, labor and POW camps of World War II (including the one in what is now Poland where Sanache was imprisoned). We need to preserve the truth about atrocities committed by the Nazis instead of creating harmful stereotypes that involve...
...prison for libel; in Jakarta. The court ruled that the Harvard-educated editor was guilty of "spreading wrongful information" about real estate tycoon Tomy Winata in a March 2003 story. Activists have decried the sentence as a blow to press freedom, criticizing the use of Indonesia's criminal code to prosecute a libel case. "The judges had a golden opportunity to write a new chapter in Indonesian history, but they did not take it," said Harymurti, who remains free pending appeal...
...assets of embattled oil major Yukos would soon be sold off in a transparent, legal way; Gazpromneft seems likely to take the spoils. Luxury Goody Two-Shoes N o loafing here: Gucci has agreed to become the first luxury fashion house to abide by a stringent voluntary labor code, the company confirmed last week to TIME. The leather and apparel firm, a division of France 's Pinault-Printemps-Redoute, pledged earlier this month that Gucci headquarters outside Florence and a nearby production oversight facility will soon face regular audits to see that they meet international standards of proper hours...
...wonder Ellen McBreen, who runs private tours of Paris art museums, kept hearing the same question on her Louvre walkabouts: "Is this where the curator was murdered?" The curator in question, Jacques Saunière, is a fictional character in Dan Brown's ubiquitous best seller The Da Vinci Code, but her clients' interest was real and surprisingly keen. Some of the novel's "hard-core followers," McBreen remembers, came to the Louvre equipped with highlighted passages and well-researched questions. McBreen sensed a business opportunity for her tour company, Paris Muse. In February, she started to offer Cracking...
Whatever the health of the economy, it seems unlikely that outside certain financial companies and law firms, the office dress code will ever snap back to the formality it had before the 1990s. Even so, high-end retailers are hopeful that a certain population of men will continue to shop like women. --By Michele Orecklin