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Oddly reminiscent of "Leviathan," both Dan James' "The Octopi and the Ocean," (Top Shelf Productions; 52pp.; $6.95) and Peter Kielland's "Fish" (Kim-Rehr Productions; 72pp.; $8.95) use pantomime and free-associative storylines, but to much sillier ends. "The Octopi" imagines the brainy encepholopods as being at constant war with the brawny sharks. In order to retrieve an important talisman from the sharks, the octopi kidnap a boy by substituting his school bus with an amphibious vehicle driven by a disguised octopus. After bringing back the talisman the boy gets folded into the shape of an envelope and returned...
...bring East Timor $100 million a year for 20 years. But outside the current boundaries, Australia is issuing new exploration licenses and receiving revenue from the Laminaria fields. "Australia is continuing to take oil from the area in dispute at a rate of $1 million a day," says Peter Galbraith, a former U.S. diplomat who leads Dili's negotiators. "Because Australia is depleting the resource, the negotiations are a matter of great urgency." Moreover, discussions on the division of petroleum taxes from the $25 billion Greater Sunrise project-also in the disputed area-have stalled...
Also at yesterday’s meeting, in a move that will change the face of graduate student financial aid, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Peter T. Ellison announced that beginning this fall, the school will be able to offer full dissertation fellowships to all incoming students in the humanities and social sciences...
...think Tulane and Notre Dame probably had a better experience today in [terms of] preparing for tomorrow’s match, because they fought a much closer contest,” explained Crimson associate coach Peter Mandeau...
Really? Some of Shell's biggest shareholders aren't satisfied. Peter Montagnon, head of investment affairs at the Association of British Insurers, which includes some of Britain's biggest institutional investors, says Shell needs to put in place "a governance arrangement that provides for proper accountability and no longer tolerates chronic underperformance...