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...energy expert from the West who visited it last month. To cope, the plant is signing under-the-table deals with wildcat coal mines that had been shut down as part of a government campaign to repair the country's atrocious mining-safety record. "The government is turning a blind eye to these illegal mines starting up again," says the expert. "It's the only immediate solution they have to the coal problem...
...Lucky you hit the bad one." DAVID BOWIE, British musician, after a lollypop thrown by an audience member hit him in his partially blind left eye during a concert in Oslo...
...with Vivendi's money. Yet some of his critics are arguing that he's not the only problem. Whether or not he's guilty of criminal wrongdoing, they say, he was abetted by a Vivendi board that didn't do its job and by French regulators who turned a blind eye. "He's become the scapegoat of everyone who played a role," says Colette Neuville, a leading shareholder activist who frequently sparred with Messier while he was running Vivendi. "Nobody tried to hold up a stop sign in front of Messier. And what's worrying is that if another Messier...
...Donahue said the potential loss in funding would not alter Harvard’s commitment to need-blind admissions...
Saying that “need-blind admissions is not enough,” Summers noted the College’s new financial aid program, by which parents who earn less than $40,000 will no longer be asked to contribute to the cost of their child’s Harvard education...