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...resident reported that while towing a car, the car's owner grabbed a slim jim and hit the victim. When the victim hopped in the tow truck and attempted to escape, the owner pulled out a handgun and fired a shot into the tow truck...
...This is about the people vs. the powers that be, and we'll fight till we drop," said Chuck Hill, 66, the new town manager, one morning. I had invited five people to breakfast; 40 showed up. Thunder Valley Inn owner Anita Nelson, in Norsk regalia, got on the piano and pounded out an anti-Perrier sing-along to the tune of Battle Hymn of the Republic. And the lesson is this: never underestimate the will or resourcefulness of people who are snowed in half the year...
...sample such customized wares as tom yum (spicy soup) pizza, and Heinecke, who became a Thai citizen in 1991, now has 116 stores taking about 95% of the country's $50 million-a-year pizza market. But after a 20-year relationship, Heinecke and U.S.-based Tricon Global Restaurants, owner of the Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Taco Bell franchises, are headed for a divorce. And it's not amicable...
Austria came under fire at the FATF for its anonymous savings-account passbooks, which could be used for money laundering by concealing the true identity of the owner of an account. There are 24 million such accounts at Austrian banks, about three times the number of the entire population, a clear indication the bankbooks are used by foreigners as well. After a threat to kick Austria out of the FATF by June 15 unless the system was changed, a newly elected Austrian government relented--sort of. Amended laws require any passbook accounts opened after Nov. 1, 2000, to identify...
...about her commitment to a soft-money ban by hedging over the agreement, she's allowed Lazio to hijack an issue she once controlled. Lazio met her demands, gathered those signatures, and showed up at her doorstep like a proud cat presenting a hard-won mouse to its horrified owner...