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DIED. WILLIAM CHOLL, 81, designer of the ubiquitous wooden sandal that, in the 1970s, enjoyed U.S. sales of $30 million a year; on the Isle of Man, Britain. Son of a founder of the Dr. Scholl's company, he spotted the sandal in Germany, reshaped it to flex the arch and added a leather strap. Consumers took care of the rest...
...rich world's leaders will be forced to address the fate of the poor and marginalized in whose name the protesters claim to speak. But this is false. At the G-8 meeting of 1998 in Birmingham, England, and the one a year later in Cologne, Germany, a sandal-wearing, hymn-singing crowd--many of whose members had been recruited in churches--ringed the host cities to argue peaceably for a reduction of the debts owed by the world's poorest nations. In very large measure, that campaign has been won; in their statement about the riots in Genoa...
...Leather Report "Man's Inhumanity to Man From sandal to saddle to bucket seat, the musky scent of leather has been the olfactory accompaniment to mankind's inexorable march of progress. Indeed, our willingness to crawl into another animal's skin is precisely one of the traits that separates us from those same beasts. Yet forced by the heat and humidity to shed our cowhides and lambskin loincloths during hotter weather, it's no wonder we are stripped of a little humanity and civilization every Memorial Day. The summertime German invasion of Poland, the Watergate break-in and Woodstock...
...postmodern spin on the traditional sword-and-sandal epic, Russell Crowe stars as Roger Clemens, a Yankee pitcher who has completely lost his mind. He now believes that he is Rogerius Clemensius, heir to the Roman throne, and has been cheated out of succession by Mets catcher Mike Piazza. Armed with nothing but a 98 m.p.h. fastball and a fragment of a broken bat, he vows to exact revenge. Both drama and hilarity ensue...
...risque, they're getting used to them. Some 37 million thongs were sold in the U.S. in 1999, giving the business a 20% boost in revenues over those of 1998, according to the marketing information group NPD. Karyn Monget, lingerie editor at Women's Wear Daily, predicts that come sandal season, as more women opt for bare legs, the control thong will take over right where control pantyhose left...