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...theater. Crammed together into a custom-made, bunker-like courtroom, the accused seemed straight from a Hollywood casting call for Mob thugs: often unshaven, sweaty and in short-sleeved leisure shirts, the Mafia men pointed fingers and hollered threats from inside steel cages that ringed the back of the vast, underground trial chamber. Though prosecutors won more than 300 convictions by 1987, both Falcone and Borsellino eventually paid the ultimate price for their Maxi-Trial assault. Now, as Italy marks 10 years since the Mafia's brazen murders of Falcone (blown up on May 23, 1992 in his car along...
Gerald M. Levin officially stepped down as CEO of AOL Time Warner last week, bringing to a close a remarkable business career. For the past 10 years he has sat atop a media empire whose vast holdings include Time Inc., publisher of scores of magazines, including TIME. There has been plenty written about Jerry's business career in these pages and elsewhere. But inside the Time & Life Building, he will be best remembered as a fierce advocate for the editorial excellence and journalistic integrity of our publications...
...From Ruwi, it's easy to plan day trips or expeditions into the interior. Frequent buses run to the inland ancient capital of Nizwa, and private cars or tour guides can be hired to drive into the desert. In Oman's vast interior, austere rock and sand dominates, but oases, green orchards and plentiful wildlife offer beautiful contrasts...
...back, Bush asked Congress for a $48 billion increase in U.S. defense spending. The add-on is more than twice as much as the entire defense budget of Germany, not exactly a dwarf among the nations. With the possible exception of Rome, no country has ever commanded such a vast lead over all the others. Nor is that power counterbalanced any longer by a worthy rival such as the Soviet Union. The U.S. is like an XXL-size Gulliver, and even his friends worry about him. The Europeans worry even more when Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says "the mission determines...
...even the expected $1.4 million advance - modest for a big musical - the Really Useful team realize they will have to entice a white audience too.The show's scriptwriter Meera Syal, who starred in Britain's Asian-centric TV comedy hit Goodness Gracious Me, knows about crossover. After the series' vast popularity she famously remarked, "Brown is the new black." Can that sense of Asians as cool spread to this show? Syal is optimistic: "I think all audiences will get this...