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...vastly different fates. At Utah Beach, the farthest west, bombardments had decimated the German defenses. Moreover, an opportune navigational mistake had landed the troops at a practically unguarded stretch of the beach. The Americans who landed there sustained relatively few casualties. The British and Canadian forces who landed at Gold and Juno beaches fought their way ashore, according to plan, and were soon followed by tanks, the mere sight of which swept most of the German resistance away. The fighting was harder at Sword Beach, where German defenders stiffened against the specter of the Allies' capturing the nearby city...
...show, including a military pace-counter that once belonged to Czar Alexander I and carriage clocks made for Napoleon Bonaparte. Synchronized to the 300th anniversary of the founding of St. Petersburg, Breguet is issuing a limited edition of 300 wristwatches - 100 each in white, yellow and rose gold - which are engraved on the back with an image of Peter the Great. Buyers beware: they cost between $17,100 and $22,100, and are only available in selected Breguet boutiques. But wristwatch fetishists can gaze at them for free at www.breguet.com...
...weekend’s pool and overall No. 1 selection for the team, will not play in the Pan Am Federation Cup due to a previous tournament commitment, but will play in the World Team Championships. Khan was also a member of the 2003 national team, winning individual gold...
...BANNED. KELLI WHITE, 27, American sprinter; from competition for two years, costing her a trip to the Athens Olympics; for using performance-enhancing drugs; by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency; in Colorado Springs, Colorado. White was also stripped of all her victories since December 2000, including gold medals in the 100-meter and 200-meter sprints at last year's world championships...
Journalists can go funny when they become famous. They can get windy and theatrical or display their regular-guy credentials with the subtlety of a gold tooth. Anyone who has watched Tim Russert, host of NBC's Meet the Press, could probably guess there's a Big Russ back in a working-class hometown whispering, "Don't let your head get too big for the doorway." Good son that he is, Russert has followed that advice, asking politicians and world leaders tough questions and then getting out of the way of their answers--and checking with his dad in South...