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...otherwise respectable clients find themselves embroiled. The partners are grateful for his services, and don't care to know too much about his methods. Or his extra-curricular activities, which include a gambling habit and an $80,000 debt to the mob, who lent him money for a bar that his feckless brother ran into the ground...
Since 1997, the U.S. has responded to these rights violations through sanctions that bar new investment in Burma. Chevron acquired its stake in the Burmese joint venture eight years after the onset of the sanctions, when it purchased rival Unocal in 2005. But since Unocal’s stake in Burma predates the 1997 sanctions, and thus is not a “new investment,” Chevron can keep its stake in the joint venture under federal law. In fact, the joint venture has continued to expand production in Burma since 2005. It added another wellhead platform last...
...quite apparent that the UC Party Grant program, in practice, has funded parties where the focus is on drinking.” Zounds! Dios mio! What a revelation! How narrow-minded our focus has been! Have you ever been to a super Euro-club where there is an open bar where no one is drinking but everyone has dilated pupils and is covered in sweat and somehow has energy to dance all night? Clearly, Pilbeam thinks that is what a Harvard party should be like, and Daisy be damned, I agree with...
...Faust says that she believes more focus on teaching, as well as dossier-size, is needed when considering someone for tenure. “I think we do have to make sure that we provide teaching support for people who are great researchers to bring them up to the bar as good teachers,” says Faust, adding that it is also important that she “have sufficient information and ask the right questions about individuals who are presented to me for tenure through the ad hoc system...
Bennett C. Braddock III ’08 sauntered into Grafton Street, made his way to the bar, and ordered a Newcastle Brown...