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Southeast Asia is crisscrossed with the footprints of foreigners who went there with the glorious dream of ruling a kingdom in the forest, like the hero of a Conrad tale. Most of them end up hustling condos in Phuket or Bali, or eventually head home for a real job. Warwick Purser, a tall, lanky, ginger-color man from Sydney, has made the dream a reality. Seven years ago, when the peripatetic entrepreneur established Out of Asia, Indonesia's largest exporter of handcrafted goods, he set up shop in the village of Tembi, half an hour's drive from Yogyakarta. Today...
...make no mistake, say his friends: Edgar Jr. would love to climb back into the mogul role. He has always loved Hollywood. The grandson of Seagram founder and former bootlegger Samuel Bronfman, Edgar Jr. began his career writing songs performed by Dionne Warwick and Ashford and Simpson and producing small movies. Pulled into the family business in 1982 by his father and made CEO in 1994, he scored wins by pushing premium brands like Chivas Regal and Absolut, and buying and selling Tropicana for a juicy profit. But Hollywood continued to beckon. He dumped the company's safe, lucrative stake...
...City cites safety, an important concern, as the motive for revoking their earlier decision. After the heinous night club fires in Chicago and East Warwick, R.I., overcrowding at parties should be a primary concern. A city can be liable for disregard of safety measures, as evidenced by the recent civil suits against East Warwick. However, limiting party hours does not solve the problem of overcrowding and could only prove to enhance it, as Undergraduate Council President Rohit Chopra has pointed out. Cutting down hours or the number of parties on a given night will only drive students to existing parties?...
...Friday in West Warwick, the inferno's violence had given way to an even more haunting industry, as the town went about the task of burying so many of its own. At the ruins, the clamshell crane shoveling away debris stopped every few minutes as yet another body was found. City-owned vans carried the remains of victims to the morgue, because West Warwick did not have enough ambulances or hearses...
...friend who may have been there. "We just don't know," she says. Foshey held out little more hope than did the dazed survivors she watched flee the club, wandering around the parking lot and calling out to friends inside who never answered back. --Reported by Matt Kelly/West Warwick and Melissa August/Washington