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...China's stepped-up oil diplomacy and its increasingly competitive stance in world oil markets are already creating friction with countries such as India, which like China has a bustling economy and a growing oil habit to satisfy. Earlier this year, ONGC Videsh, the overseas investment arm of India's largest oil-and-gas producer, was on the verge of completing a deal that would have given it an 11% stake in a proven oil field in Sudan. While the company waited for the necessary approval from India's Cabinet, CNPC swooped in with an offer that was reportedly...
...punch?” First, the cynical answer. Harvard’s administration is so obstinate and aggressive in its efforts to control the amount of partying on campus that being a member of a club entitles you to a building which is beyond the reach of the long arm of the Harvard University Police Department, where you can do more or less whatever you please until whenever you please—for better or for worse. It is no coincidence that most final clubs are not frantic evening hotspots until approximately 1 a.m., when room parties are shut down...
...Suo’s Japanese film this is understandably mortifying because, as a voiceover tells us at the outset, “In a country where married couples don’t go out arm in arm…the idea that a husband and wife should embrace and dance in front of others is beyond embarrassing...
That’s why the team chatters more than they would at a regular practice. That’s why everyone overthrows everything trying to show arm strength. That’s why everyone—even if you’re a little hurt—takes the mound...
...course, there’s no question that Boston can fight. Alex Rodriguez’s reaction to a slight nick in the arm from a Bronson Arroyo pitch this July—those Yankees sure are sensitive—started quite a brawl, and though Yankee Tanyon Sturtze tried to grab Gabe Kapler’s head, it was ultimately Sturtze who ended up bruised and battered on the ground. Maybe the Yankees just like to get pounded; who can forget former Yankees bench coach and generally unhinged malcontent Don Zimmer getting thrown to the ground after he charged...