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...such a relatively minor sum should turn out to be Kozlowski's, and his company's, undoing. (It was tax evasion, after all, that finally put Al Capone away.) Prosecutors claim that Kozlowski and his art dealers, who are cooperating with the investigation, had paintings shipped to Tyco's modest U.S. headquarters in Exeter, N.H., and then immediately returned to Kozlowski's apartment on New York City's Fifth Avenue--and in some cases shipped empty boxes to New Hampshire--to claim an exemption from New York sales tax. But those allegations look like just the starting point...
...striker, the bleach blond, baby-faced Junichi Inamoto?the talk of Japan last week after he scored the winning goal in Japan's 1-0 victory over Russia and contributed another in a 2-2 draw with Belgium. In early qi sessions, Inamoto "was a little shy, a little modest and somewhat negative," says Toyoda, who also counsels Japanese baseball sensation Ichiro Suzuki. "But after some mental training, he became more extroverted. Now he has learned a sixth sense to detect where the ball is quickly and to act quickly...
...wouldn't expect him to write a dense, dark legal thriller either, but Carter is the author of The Emperor of Ocean Park, to be published this week with an astronomical first printing of 500,000 copies. Carter is appallingly modest about it all. "I never dreamed the reception would be anything like what happened," he says. "I assumed it would more or less drop without a ripple...
...hosts more than 50,000 funerals a year, and shopkeepers are more likely to sell sandalwood logs, incense and tinsel garlands?the paraphernalia of death?than savory samosas. It takes about three hours to burn a body, and the cost can be prohibitive, usually starting at $200 for a modest affair. Whole streets are dedicated to the selling of shrouds and the influx of tourists has spawned a new school of opportunists. Papu, a self-appointed guide to the Hindu rituals of death, walks visitors through the ceremony, then earnestly describes the karmic benefits of giving $10 to a widow...
...goes with Taraf de Haïdouks, or "band of brigands," a Romanian gypsy group that has won praise from the late Yehudi Menuhin, modeled clothes for Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto and played Johnny Depp's Viper Club in L.A. Taraf's CD sales may still be modest, but their performances have won a cult following. And they are not alone. Gypsy music is stirring audiences around the world. Top bands from Central Europe are playing upwards of 100 foreign gigs a year. Filmmakers are hungry for their scores. Critics have likened the outpouring to the birth of jazz...