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...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...
...poorest country in the western hemisphere. "A few months ago we couldn't move because of security," said Guy Gavreau of the U.N. World Food Program. "Now we can't move because the roads are destroyed." A minor earthquake that struck late Saturday caused little additional damage. - By Peter Prengaman A Silenced Voice SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO Gunmen shot dead Dusko Jovanovic, the controversial editor of Montenegro 's conservative daily Dan newspaper. Dan was frequently critical of the coalition government of Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic. New Terror SAUDI ARABIA Security forces stormed a housing complex for expatriate oil workers...
...Peter Kielland's "Fish" combines the absurdity of "The Octopi" with the sweep of "Leviathan." The title character, a fish with feet, wanders through the ages, mostly in terror and under pursuit. He begins at the dawn of man and witnesses the arrival of aliens who zap the dumb apes with higher consciousness. Uninterested in such goings on he goes to sleep and somehow wakes up in the early twenty-first century. Soon he goes from barroom oddity to household pet to valuable commodity. Escaping it all, he falls asleep and wakes up during the apocalypse where he soon becomes...
Steve Staples, associate athletic director of external relations and liaison for the ski teams within the athletic department, will be in charge of hiring a new coach. The captains, as well as Nordic coach Peter Graves, also hope to have input in the process...
...Peter P.M. Buttigieg ’04 is a history and literature concentrator in Leverett House. His column appears regularly...