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...feature redesigned dials, bezels, hands and lugs. Bulgari is also introducing several new models that take Diagono to the top tiers of watchmaking. One of the most complicated timepieces, the Diagono Tourbillon?limited to 30 platinum pieces?is an exemplar of the company's increasingly vertically integrated production. Its movement (i.e., the watch's inner workings) is made up of 200 minuscule pieces?52 in the tourbillon mechanism alone. (The tourbillon is a fancy device originally designed to counteract the effects of gravity.) Each watch is assembled from start to finish by a single craftsman at Daniel Roth & Gérald...
...atelier in Le Sentier, enormous machines and careful handiwork produce the components of a grand complication before it is assembled with exquisite precision, right. The movement is then put into the case, and details like the dial and hands are added, far right...
...place in the cultural lexicon in time for his 80th birthday early next year. Roger Vivier's faceted evening clutch and Louis Vuitton's hand-curled cuff seem at first glance more like sculptures than wearable pieces. Fredrikson Stallard's King Bonk chair takes its cues from the deconstructionist movement. And never one to miss an opportunity, Gehry himself has gotten into the business of designing home-décor items and jewelry, for Tiffany...
...start of the tenure movement paralleled similar labor struggles during the late 19th century. Just as steel and auto workers fought against unsafe working conditions and unlivable wages, teachers too demanded protection from parents and administrators who would try to dictate lesson plans or exclude controversial materials like Huck Finn from reading lists. In 1887, nearly 10,000 teachers from across the country met in Chicago for the first-ever conference of the National Educator's Association, now one of the country's most powerful teachers' unions. The topic of "teacher's tenure" led the agenda. By the turn...
...obviously be to create a political entity in which it could rule - is sitting on the fence in response to the Basra autonomy proposal, the Sadrists are furious. "It's playing with fire that could engulf all of Iraq," says Sheikh Salah al-Obeidi, a spokesman for Sadr's movement in the southern Shi'ite holy city of Najaf. "The result might be the division of Iraq if it's forced now, during this period...