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Model Carolyn Murphy wore a leaf-green vintage Loris Azzaro dress to this year's Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute gala, Dolce & Gabbana covered its flapper frocks in kelly-green fringe, and Roberto Cavalli accented his sport-inspired menswear collection with Astroturf shades. In Hollywood, on the heels of The Hulk comes Shrek 2, slated for release in June 2004, as well as three green pieces in the works: Neverland and Peter Pan, both adaptations of the book, and talk of a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie...
...DIED. ROBERTO MARINHO, 98, media magnate and one of Brazil's richest and most powerful men; in Rio de Janeiro. Inheriting a small newspaper from his father when he was 20, he built O Globo into an empire whose television stations reached 99.9% of the country's homes and broadcast Brazilian soap operas around the world...
...Recart were captured when French antiterrorist officers raided their house in Cahors. Police also discovered 448 kg of explosives and a number of firearms. Not So Immune, After All ITALY Two of the four parties in Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's ruling coalition threatened to quit after Justice Minister Roberto Castelli tried to block an investigation into Berlusconi's business dealings. Castelli had vetoed the probe into Berlusconi's Mediaset company, but reversed the decision, with Berlusconi's agreement, after the coalition partners threatened to walk; Castelli then survived a no-confidence vote 166 to 121. Curbing the Generals TURKEY...
...Britain have spawned dozens of full-fledged smart shops in those countries. Schouten claims to take a missionary view of his business. "I think what I'm doing is ethical," he says. "Laws that prohibit you from being free with your own consciousness are undemocratic." Sitting outside PuraVida, Roberto Bartoccini, 21, agrees. He is a fan of the new store and their "charge-up" drinks for his occasional nights out on the town. But, he says, there's one product still missing. "This is great," he says, "but I wish they could sell marijuana." Bartoccini is smart enough to know...
...Some argue that Europeans are not going as far as they used to. Roberto Perrone, of Rome's Turicam agency, says: "Maybe a two- or three-hour flight, but no more." This could be due to money and safety jitters, but they are not the only reasons the Great European Vacation is changing. The traditional months off are July and August, but more people now seem to be breaking their time down into smaller chunks instead of taking one three- to four-week lump. Travel agents even have an ugly neologism for the shift. "It's called deseasonalization," says Maura...