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...just can't keep Big Oil down. Trouncing analysts' expectations Tuesday, BP and Royal Dutch Shell, Europe's largest oil companies, delivered record profits for the first quarter of 2008. Anglo-Dutch firm Shell netted $7.78 billion in the first three months of this year, up 12% over the same period in 2007. Profits at rival BP, meanwhile, swelled by almost half to $6.59 billion. Shares in each firm climbed almost 5% on the news...
...closeness to Bush, and before that to Bill Clinton, never quite won him the influence he expected - Blair "massively overstated the importance of personal charisma and personal connections," says Katwala - and Britons became disenchanted with their then leader precisely because of this closeness and the sulfurous taint of the Anglo-American alliance on Iraq. Katwala maintains that Brown's businesslike approach to foreign leaders is in tune with the times. Denis MacShane, a former Labour Foreign Office Minister, echoes the point: "Brown wants respectful state-to-state relations with tricky countries like Russia and China, but he's not getting...
...Hindi has spiced the language with a masala of words long-since codified in its dictionaries: chit, guru, jungle, pajamas, pundit, sentry, shampoo, and thug, to name just a few. Indian cuisine long ago surpassed fish-and-chips as Britain's most popular restaurant food. Or, at least, "Anglo-Indian" - England's most popular "Indian" dish, chicken tikka masala, is actually a British invention, since exported to the land that inspired it. Indian property and hotel developers borrow the lexicon of their English counterparts, using terms such as park, mews or estate in the names of new upscale complexes...
...Department of English and American Literature and Language is not actually in the business of teaching English and American literature and language. Rather, it teaches about the structure and works of the English language. While the department’s current name implies that only works from the Anglo-American tradition would fall within its purview, in fact authors from backgrounds ranging from South African to Polish are routinely taught in its courses. What unites these authors is English—not the nationality, which is implied by its placement alongside “American” in the current...
...advantages, Rendell notes, not the least of which are the many trips she and her husband made to the state during his presidency, usually bringing good news-and money. And there was a lot of money from Washington, including the $50 million the feds put up to entice an Anglo-Norwegian shipbuilder to the former Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and the funding that put hundreds of new police officers on the streets of Philadelphia. Rendell was the city's mayor at the time and always at the Clintons' side for the photo op. "I am the best messenger to Philadelphia...