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...Litt, the victims of these sorts of frauds are real people with real families and real retirement savings that don't exist anymore," says Ivan Fisher, a defense attorney in the Vilar case. "For some prosecutors these are just litigations. That's not the case with Litt...
...factory - which just this year started up a new production line - laid off 40 people, and cut pay for those who remained by 15%. At least they're being paid: the machinery factory nearby is two months in arrears. "People woke up one day and everything had changed," says Ivan Pronin, the editor of the local paper, the Lyudinovo Worker. "It's like a hurricane blew through here all of a sudden...
...long history of offal eating. "We once were a nation that ate everything," says Ivan Day, a food historian who specializes in British and European cuisine. Lancashire, an industrial area in northwest England, is famous for its offal dishes, including liver, kidney, tripe (the lining of a cow's stomach), cow's heel, sheep's trotters and elder (cow's udder). There were more than 260 tripe shops in regional capital Manchester a century ago, many of which sold faggots, a traditional English dish made from a mixture of pork liver, fatty pork and herbs wrapped in an intestinal membrane...
...World Series of Poker's championship event - a $10,000 buy-in elimination tournament known as the most lucrative and prestigious event in professional poker. Last week, after a 117-day recess, 22-year-old Danish pro Peter Eastgate captured the title, defeating 27-year-old Russian Ivan Demidov by turning a straight on the final hand to beat Demidov's two pairs. Eastgate, the youngest main event champion in history, earned $9.1 million for his efforts-the second largest prize the tournament has ever doled out. On his way back to Europe, he caught up with TIME...
...Ivan [Demidov, the runner-up] was one of the toughest players. He played a very good final table as well; he's a really tough player. There are a lot of tough guys. Later on in the tournament, there were so many really solid players, and very few bad players...