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...radio, a Sleater-Kinney song throws everything around it off balance, the way a Smokey Robinson composition like The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage can make whatever might play before or after it seem stupid. "It can be thrilling and scary at the same time," Weiss says of hearing the band's music on the radio, which, on commercial stations, almost never happens. "To be involved in that--it's almost as if it's not real...
...culpability might appear, the tribunal's verdict will not come soon. Even the start of the trial remains months away: Milosevic's lawyers will likely file a raft of procedural appeals to delay the hearings. The three judges who will hear the case - Richard May of Britain, Patrick Robinson of Jamaica and Mohamed Al-Habib Fassi Fihri of Morocco - will make the ultimate determination of Milosevic's guilt; but the tribunal's brand of painstaking jurisprudence means that his fate may not be settled for years. If he is found guilty, Milosevic will probably face life imprisonment...
...Kraenzlin doesn't get to go much. As head of the Four Seasons resort in the Maldives, he spends his days trying to give to thousands of others an experience that, give or take a man Friday, should strictly be solitary. "We all fantasize about a desert island, like Robinson Crusoe, with nothing on it but a palm tree," he says. "That's paradise." It's a measure of how well the Maldives has preserved this dreamscape that each year it can still turn half a million people into castaways...
DIED. JOEY MAXIM, 79, light-heavyweight champion who defended his world title against Sugar Ray Robinson in 1952; of complications from a stroke; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Maxim faced Robinson on June 25 at Yankee Stadium in 103[degrees]F weather. Robinson, heralded as the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time, was well ahead with the judges but keeled over from the heat after the 13th round, giving Maxim a technical knockout...
...office to show him something on the screen: a copy of the first White Stripes single has just sold for $100 on eBay. "It was at $68 yesterday," Jack laughs, shaking his head in amazement. Soon after, the keyboardist for the Black Crowes calls about Kate Hudson and Chris Robinson's guest list for an upcoming show. "Yeah, we're going on Craig Kilborn," Jack mentions to him casually. "Yeah, it's our first time doing TV." (That appearance is scheduled for next month.) The White Stripes may have only sold around 25,000 albums in total, but celebrity appears...