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ARRESTED. NINA WANG, 64, one of Asia's richest women, and widow of late property tycoon Teddy Wang; after a court ruled last month that she had "probably" forged her husband's will; in Hong Kong. Nicknamed "Little Sweetie" for her pigtails and flamboyant clothes, Wang says her husband, who was kidnapped in 1990 and declared dead in 1999, named her sole beneficiary in a will dated a month before he disappeared. But the court rejected that claim and awarded Teddy Wang's estimated $128 million estate to his 90-year-old father. Wang is out on $640,000 bail...
...taken root. During the Clinton years, it was rural juries of both races that convicted Byron De La Beckwith, the white assassin of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. (Another multiracial jury recently convicted the white church arsonists that had terrorized the state.) Earlier this year, Myrlie Evers, the widow of Medgar, announced that she was donating her husband's NAACP papers, personal correspondence and assorted memorabilia to the State Archive in Mississippi. "That's where his paper's belong," she said. "He would be pleased by how far Mississippi has come in terms of race relations...
...Perhaps the most intelligently romantic of all wartime dramas is Ann Hui's Love in a Fallen City (1984), from the Eileen Chang novel about a lonely Shanghai widow (Cora Miao) courted by a dashing Hong Kong playboy (the young, magnetic Chow Yun-fat at his most Cary Grant-ish) in 1939. The Japanese invade Hong Kong, families and fortunes crumble, yet the glow of their hard-won rapture, of love deferred and love embraced, lights up the screen...
...under attack. The persecutors? Terrorists, criminals, all Pakistanis (and President Pervez Musharraf in particular, whom Modi declares to be his true electoral opponent), Osama bin Laden, intellectuals, the media, "pseudo secularists," communists and cow killers. He reserves particular venom for Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born widow of assassinated Premier Rajiv Gandhi. Her entire party sees the world through "Italian glasses," he declares to loud laughs. But it's an odd slight for a man who himself looks out from behind a pair of frameless Bulgaris from Milan. As the bus bounces over potholes into Gujarat's flat, dusty...
...reporter that the U.S. president was a "moron." Opposition politicians accused Chrétien of further souring his relations with Bush by being slow to accept the resignation. MEANWHILE Arachnophobia Britain's largest supermarket chain, Tesco, had a hairy problem on its hands after six women found Black Widow spiders in grapes. While the chain does allow predators to protect organic fruit from pests, Tesco said its suppliers don't deliberately use Black Widows, whose venom is 15 times deadlier than a rattlesnake...