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...DeLay's former chief of staff and pastor) played hooking up Abramoff with Tom DeLay's office. We found out that, in arranging a questionable junket to London, DeLay staff members were demanding that Abramoff produce Lion King tickets, rooms at the Four Seasons and other lavish accommodations. And???with e-mails obtained by my colleague Adam Zagorin?we showed that Ralph Reed was helping Abramoff gain access at the White House...
Just because you'll be paying a lot more for heating oil and??electricity this winter doesn't mean you'll reap a windfall by investing in stocks of companies in those businesses. Most energy-related stocks have doubled over the past few years, fed by soaring oil prices. For them to move much higher, oil--which has been edging lower of late--would have to resume its upward trend. Which it may. Wall Street heavyweight Goldman Sachs raised the specter of oil at $100 per bbl. even before hurricanes Katrina and Rita disrupted supply lines and briefly pushed...
With his baby-bottom complexion and??piano-player hands, Weil is unlikely to find his advice accepted by those of us who put up drywall, frame houses, work with horses and repair trucks and cars. By age 60, we are so beaten up that at the end of the day, eating biscuits and gravy is like consuming the elixir of the gods. BILL CROOKHAM Caldwell, Idaho...
World oil production is about to reach a peak and??go into its final decline. For years, a handful of petroleum geologists, including me, have been predicting peak oil before 2007, but in an era of cheap oil, few people listened. Lately, several major oil companies seem to have got the message. One of Chevron's ads says the world is currently burning 2 bbl. of oil for every barrel of new oil discovered. ExxonMobil says 1987 was the last year that we found more oil worldwide than we burned. Shell reports that it will expand its Canadian oil-sands...
...almost every account, Sanchez and??Bremer did not get along. The conflict was predictable--the soldiers tended to be realists fighting a nasty war; the civilians, idealists trying to create a new Iraq--but it was troubling nonetheless. The soldiers wanted to try diplomacy and began reaching out to the less extreme elements of the insurgency to bring them into negotiations over Iraq's political future. The diplomats took a harder line, refusing to negotiate with the enemy...