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...named Casaubon hides after closing time in a Paris museum called the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers. Nearby, an enormous pendulum swings silently in the gathering darkness, mute testimony, as a 19th century French scientist named Foucault first demonstrated, to the rotation of the earth. Casaubon is here because he suspects something terrible will happen before dawn. If he is correct, then he and two friends, playful inventors of a plot to rule the world, do not have long to live. In their machinations, have he and his coconspirators accidentally stumbled across some dangerous truth? Or, % perhaps worse, have their...
Alaska v. Exxon et al is likely to break some courtroom records. Robert LeResche, who heads the state's investigation of the spill, believes the legal wrangling will last at least a decade. "Out of the approximately 150 suits filed against Exxon, this is the big one," says Bryan Jacoboski, who follows the oil industry for Paine Webber. "It will keep Exxon's stock from going anywhere for a long time...
...this week even Dukakis's home town of Brookline has joined the Duke-bashing by bringing suit against the state over the aid crisis. (Yesterday's Boston Globe featured an editorial cartoon in which a toga-clad Dukakis cries "Et tu, Brookline...
...timely move is being led by Societe Suisse de Microelectronique et d'Horlogerie, originator of the popular quartz Swatch Watch. The company has - produced six prototypes of a mechanical, self-winding version of the Swatch, which will probably go on sale next year for about $40. Though quartz models constituted 90% of Swiss-made watches last year, the mechanical versions could account for half of all sales...
...Et Veritas: Senior Co-Captain Steve Lux was selected as the team's MVP at a banquet last week. Lux scored six goals against UNH on May 3 to bring him within two points of Cavuoti on the scoring list...