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...familiar terrain -- the Barbie trial, the Waldheim election -- but when she ventures off the beaten track, which she does fairly often, she discovers some very interesting things. Like the fact that the Dutch government still pays a pension of about $11,000 a year to the widow of the country's deputy Nazi leader during the German Occupation, and that she unrepentantly spends part of the money to distribute neo-Nazi propaganda. Or that the monument the Soviets reluctantly built at Babi Yar is actually half a mile away from the ravine where thousands of Jews were slaughtered, and that...
...purely a business decision," said the note left by Alex Council for his wife Kay in their High Point, N.C., home in 1988. "You will find my body on the lot on the north side of the house." In a chilling tale for taxpayers, the widow last week told a Senate subcommittee that her husband, 49, killed himself so she could use his $250,000 life insurance policy to fight a claim by the Internal Revenue Service that the Councils owed $300,000 in taxes...
...NOTEBOOK:After the monthlong lockout delayed openers by a week, the start of the season was pushed back an extra 18 minutes because of pregame festivities. Toni Giamatti, widow of former commissioner Bart Giamatti, threw out the ceremonial first ball...
...Mark Henderson's offstage fireworks. Film veteran Charles Durning brings beguiling malice to Big Daddy, capturing the crass vitality of this aging self-made entrepreneur, while Polly Holliday, Flo on CBS-TV's erstwhile Alice, is all fluttering and giggles and connivance as his soon-to-be widow...
When Oleg's successor Igor was killed in battle by a tribe known as the Drevlianians, his widow Olga took over in 945 and reigned for the next 17 years, thus becoming the first celebrated Russian woman. When the Drevlianian prince proposed that she marry him, she asked him to send envoys to bring her to him by boat; she then had the envoys and their boat flung into a pit, where they were buried alive. She next asked that the Drevlianians send their leading men to provide an escort, then offered them a bath, locked them in the bathhouse...