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...government officials that temporarily suspended the Milan case. That law was overturned, and the trial resumed in April. The latest verdicts may not change many minds in Italy, but perhaps they can start to change the subject. - By Jeff Israely Saddam's Supplier? THE NETHERLANDS Police arrested businessman Frans van Anraat on charges of war crimes and involvement in genocide for his alleged role in supplying thousands of tons of raw materials for mustard gas to Saddam Hussein's regime between 1984 and 1988. Prosecutors said the gas was used in an attack by Saddam's forces on the Iraqi...
...DIED. JAY VAN ANDEL, 80, billionaire co-founder of direct-sales behemoth Amway; in Ada, Michigan. With his childhood friend Richard DeVos, Van Andel founded the company in the pair's basements in 1959 and built it into a worldwide network of individual distributors who sold cosmetics and furniture polish and earned a cut for recruiting others. In the 1970s the U.S. government investigated Amway, suspecting it was a pyramid scheme, but the charges were never proved. In 2000, Amway became part of a larger sales and business-services company, Alticor Inc., formed by Van Andel's and DeVos' families...
...Brian Wilson finally finished and released SMiLE, sending shockwaves through critical circles and introducing a new generation to the greatness of the late great sound of ’60s pop. Loretta Lynn’s decision to pair up with Detroiter Jack White spawned the confident, immensely listenable Van Lear Rose, a simple country album without any of the polish—a record replete with first takes, proudly flaunting its loose threads, winning on grit and charisma. The extreme optimist might hope that the commercial success these two legends found by committing themselves to old-fashioned, long-forgotten...
...with a treat from the che stall at 25 Nguyen Binh Khiem street. Che are sweet desserts made from various combinations of fruit, beans, tapioca, sugar and sweetened coconut milk, and are hugely popular in the south of Vietnam. At this stall you'll find a refreshing che dau van (made with haricot beans) for a mere $0.05. Then drive it home with a digestif of rau ma (liquified pennywort), available from the Ben Thanh market food hall for just $0.25. That brings your three-course meal with drink to a whopping $0.90. What was that about never leaving your...
INVENTORS Rob Bruce, Dylan Van Atta AVAILABILITY Spring 2005, $25 a pair