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...favor U.S. plans for a bigger military role in West Africa We have problems in the Niger Delta, but I prefer what I will call a homegrown solution. I think we are on top of the situation and our military can deal with it. We don't have a problem with the U.S. military taking an active interest in the region, but our security forces are competent and can handle any threat, at least...
Shell and BP have taken bigger risks than ExxonMobil in this latter zone, with mixed results. And while the state-owned companies appear to have lots of oil, they're generally less adept at getting it out of the ground quickly than the private Western oil giants. All of which appears to mean that today's gasoline prices, unlike those of the 1980s, won't be returning to earth anytime soon...
...impossible to stop it," Hoeppner gripes of the impromptu cartel deals. Even for an exclusive photo, a Czech tabloid would pay a fraction of what its U.S. equivalents might. Most Czech celebrity shutterbugs are simply well-paid salarymen. "Better the money, bigger the threat your editor will scold you, 'How come you don't have that?' " Hoeppner says...
...This is false. Obama has the real-world experience and commitment to practical policymaking to catapult his growing campaign to a successful presidency. Far more importantly, however, our preoccupation with these questions has distracted us from the bigger and less tangible crisis that we face today: as the Bush administration continues its seventh year and the Iraq war its fourth, the country has lost faith in its government. Increasingly, Americans feel that real power rests not with the citizens but with the rich and well-connected. We live in an age when Jack Abramoff can buy influence on Capitol Hill...
...wrong—I care about my grades, and work hard in my classes largely because I want to get good grades. I am scared of C’s and D’s, which is really silly considering they are just letters and I’m bigger than them and can almost certainly bench-press more than they do. I do all the things required to get good grades–I go to class, do my homework, steal other people’s notes, etc.—but I still don?...