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...Italian-Austrian who ranched cattle in Kenya's Rift Valley. She is the daughter of a South African sugar-cane farmer. While John and Erica Platter were not actually born into South Africa's 300-year-old viticulture industry, they have nonetheless become the foremost ambassadors of the country's wine. The Platters' annual South African wine guide was first published in 1979. The 2003 edition is 520 pages thick, and required reading among the sundowner-sipping svelte of the veldt. Now, after what they describe as "a year, or two, of drinking dangerously" the couple have completed a safari...
...SENTENCED. LI LAN, 47, peasant farmer, to one year in prison for "slander"; in Lanshan, Hunan province, China. Li led a drive to impeach a local police official after her pregnant daughter was killed in a battle between two village clans. She collected more than 1,000 signatures and thumbprints from people saying the police had not done enough to investigate. She was arrested in 2001 shortly after TIME wrote about her efforts...
...amalgam of 15 groups under the banner of the National Rainbow Coalition. It is stacked with former KANU members, many of them accused of the corruption Kibaki promises to fight. The new President was born in the shadow of Mount Kenya, the son of a tobacco and cattle farmer. After excelling at his high school, Kibaki studied at Uganda's Makerere University, one of Africa's best, and at the London School of Economics. He helped draw up the first Kenyan constitution and then served as Kenyatta's Finance Minister. A serious and clean technocrat, he can still sound...
...chairman and bid €56 per share in cash and stock for the whole bank, valuing once-moribund Crédit Lyonnais at €19.5 billion. Laurent remains CEO - for the moment - but the man to watch is new chairman René Carron, who's also a dairy farmer. "We went a bit higher but not that much higher" as a result of the blunder, he said sheepishly...
...that produced the new nation of East Timor, Hasan Basri presented residents of the small town of Venelale with a proposition: give me your youngest children. I will feed them, I will educate them, and most importantly, I will protect them. At the time, Jose Pereira, a poor local farmer, awoke each morning wondering if that day the truckload of Indonesian soldiers would appear in their vengeful hunt for independence fighters and attack his family. He listened carefully to what the stranger offered. Hasan said he had government funding. He would take the children to a school in the town...