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...track and field apparatus Qatar has gathered as it prepares to host the 2006 Asian Games is a true mixed relay: it includes formerly Kenyan 10,000-m runner Albert Chepkurui, A.K.A. Abdullah Ahmad Hassan, and its training staff - led by a Belgian ex-decathlon competitor - also boasts a Russian, a Czech and a Hungarian. Why didn't Kenya block Shaheen from racing for Qatar the way it stopped 800-m champion Wilson Kipketer running for Denmark at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics? There has been wide speculation that Kenyan track authorities were promised payment or a new track facility...
...Thieves posing as tourists made off with a Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece worth around $50 million. The work, Madonna of the Yarnwinder, hung in the stairway of Scotland's Drumlanrig Castle. Insurers put up a $160,000 reward for the recovery of the work. Deep Disaster RUSSIA An aging Russian nuclear submarine sank in the Barents Sea, with the loss of up to 9 of its 10 crew members. The vessel was being towed to a scrapyard when pontoons supporting it broke away in a heavy storm, sending the sub down in 170 m of water. Navy officials claimed that...
...money for a photograph. But the right picture of the right perfume in the right bottle by the right designer can significantly fatten L'Oreal's bottom line. One Lanvin suit in a Russian department-store window or on Kate Moss on the cover of a fashion magazine can inspire thousands of sales and raise the profile of the designer, the store and the photographer who shot the photograph...
...lunchtime Verber will have bought some $87,000 worth of Lanvin goods (with a retail value of about $236,000). It's a sizable amount for a brand in the midst of a turnaround like Lanvin but mere peanuts to Verber, vice president of Mercury, a Moscow-based Russian retail company that has recently become known as a savior of sorts in the fashion world. Brands like Gucci, Prada and Chanel are partnering with Mercury to open outlets in Russia, and the country is one of the few bright spots in the global economic gloom of the last few seasons...
...tried to open every door," Verber says. "People were afraid to sell to me. They thought I would spoil their image. I had to show them I was professional." She got most of the top brands she was after but not without compromise. "We're Russian," she says. "We pay in advance." There are plenty of others she still dreams of carrying (note to Ralph Lauren and St. John), but perhaps not for long. --By Lauren Goldstein