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...February 1999, prices were languishing at about $10 a bbl.--so the former paratroop commander campaigned to revive OPEC, persuading the cartel to rein in production to boost prices. The effort paid off when the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq shook oil markets and prices began their awesome ascent. The spike also helped Chávez recover from a reckless and devastating 2002 strike by his opponents inside PDVSA...
...There was still something special about covering last year’s Game, the culmination of Yale’s ascent to the pinnacle of the Ivy League. But I no longer have the energy to reiterate the importance of Matt Polhemus’ intangibles (see 17-2 record as a starter) or Mike McLeod’s superiority to Dawson (on pace to have Dawson’s yardage record broken by this time next year and the touchdown record by October...
...debut this evening. The 12-part series, produced by the BBC, features six American and British athletes who compete with each other in tribal games while immersing themselves in indigenous culture. The show will air on the Discovery Channel at 9 p.m. tonight. For Rennell, a certified diver, first ascent mountaineer, and endurance athlete, the show offered an opportunity to escape the rigor of school life and embrace a new physical challenge. “By junior year, I was kind of disenchanted with school and I was feeling pressure to rush through my whole life and achieve all these...
...send the wrong signs to the Bush Administration; it doesn't need us to be encouraged towards war," sarcastically warned former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, whose impassioned anti-invasion speech at the United Nations in February 2003 gave wings to his political career before Sarkozy's ascent stymied it. "There are rules on how to use force," concurred Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which leads negotiations with Tehran. "I would hope that everybody would have gotten the lesson after the Iraq situation, where 700,000 innocent civilians have lost their lives on the suspicion...
...book will be a landmark. The Rev. Matthew Lamb, chairman of the theology department at the conservative Ave Maria University in Florida, thinks Come Be My Light will eventually rank with St. Augustine's Confessions and Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain as an autobiography of spiritual ascent. Martin of America, a much more liberal institution, calls the book "a new ministry for Mother Teresa, a written ministry of her interior life," and says, "It may be remembered as just as important as her ministry to the poor. It would be a ministry to people who had experienced some...