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...havens. (Zini, Bianchi and Penca deny any wrongdoing.) When the hole grew too large to hide, Tanzi, Tonna and the two auditors allegedly came up with Parmalat's most audacious invention: a bogus milk producer in Singapore that supposedly supplied 300,000 tons of nonexistent milk powder to a Cuban importer via Bonlat, a Cayman Islands subsidiary that held the fake Bank of America account. "What struck and surprises me is the simplicity," says Francesco Greco, the senior magistrate in Milan on the case. "It was almost banal...
...those classical music connoisseurs attending the BPO performance, stick around for an extra treat as the Boston Conservatory Orchestra will be performing that same evening. Guest conductor Christopher Wilkins and the orchestra will provide an uniquely phenomenal performance of Gershwin’s Cuban Overture, Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherezade. Tickets $12. $5 students and seniors, $10 for Boston Conservatory alumni and WGBH members are available online...
...MICHAEL BESCHLOSS Presidential Historian Use history to lead. Throughout the Cuban missile crisis, John Kennedy struggled to ensure that global war did not start by accident, as he knew it had in 1914. Even before our Civil War, Abraham Lincoln tried to use the "mystic chords of memory" that went back to the Revolution to draw Americans together again...
...When Cuban parents launched Operation Pedro Pan in 1960, all they were trying to do was get their children safely out of Fidel Castro's Cuba and into the U.S. Nobody knew then that one of those children would go on to become the first Cuban American elected to the U.S. Senate. With his victory in Florida last week, Mel Martinez, 58, earned that distinction, picking off a seat that had been held by retiring Democrat Bob Graham. But the feel-good story follows a feel-bad campaign, and even before he takes office, Martinez may have some fences...
...Bush--in his corner, Martinez might have run a vigorous but dignified race. Instead, his campaign slung mud early, labeling his primary opponent a tool of the "radical homosexual lobby" (the St. Petersburg Times withdrew its endorsement of Martinez in disgust) and calling the federal agents who seized Cuban refugee Elián González four years ago "armed thugs." Martinez lamely blamed "Young Turks" on his staff for the nastiness...