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...other regional department stores--bought a $5 million stake in upscale toy retailer FAO. Saks plans to add an FAO boutique to 22 of its stores by September and FAO displays in 245 of its locations for the holidays. "FAO should have done this long ago," says Jeffrey Van Sinderen, a specialty retail analyst for B. Riley & Co. Leveraging another chain's infrastructure, he says, could have reduced the high costs that helped drive the retailer into the bankruptcy from which it emerged in April. And the partnership could yield new customers--moms as well as kids--for Saks...
...cops say if we don't pay, they'll keep her here for six months," says Liu's wife. "We're trying to lower the price. They haven't let us speak to our daughter. We don't know what we're supposed to do." As a white van pulls up and disgorges another group of handcuffed detainees, Liu and his wife go inside to bargain for their daughter's freedom. With luck, their savings will be her salvation...
...Van Sant's terse (80 min.), remorseless film, made for HBO, describes, with fascination but no special urgency, a typical day at a generic high school. For minutes on end, the camera tracks the movements of several students at Watt High: a blond boy arriving late because he has been caring for his alcoholic father, an athlete and his pretty girlfriend planning their calendar, and two lads arming themselves for their own private Armageddon...
...Nicole Kidman) and fully earns its violent comeuppance. The other film arrived with little fanfare but walked away with the major awards. Elephant, which transposes the Columbine, Colo., massacre to an Oregon high school, won the Palme d'Or as top film and the Best Director prize for Gus Van Sant. Dogville was shut out--not a kibble...
SENTENCED. TRUONG VAN CAM, a.k.a. Nam Cam, 56, Vietnam's most notorious crime lord; to death for charges ranging from bribery to murder; in Ho Chi Minh City. Cam's gambling, prostitution and racketeering empire was reportedly pulling in about $2 million a month when he was arrested in December 2001. The case exposed the link between organized crime and the ruling Communist Party. At the trial the 155 defendants included 18 officials, most on Cam's payroll. Three were senior Party cadres who have been sentenced to four to 10 years in jail...