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...make money on the deal itself. They just need the product." The emergence of giant Asian buyers on the market has made Van Dyke's dealmaking much easier. At one point, Sinopec and CNOOC, another Chinese state oil firm, were unwittingly bidding against each other for a single block off the coast of Morocco. CNOOC's failed attempt to buy Unocal for $18.5 billion earlier this year and India's bids against China in deals in Ecuador and Kazakhstan signaled that the two countries are serious about oil. In the process, they have given new life to the risky business...
...stealing in New Haven; people who own things at Harvard. So, there we have it: conclusive, empirical proof that Harvard is top-shelf, while Yale is somewhere in the middle shelves, maybe even in the musty pantry in the basement. We have more books, more land, cleaner air, a block on the Supreme Court, and so many Nobel Prize winners, we don’t know what to do with ourselves. Surely, if we could mine a statistic on modesty, we would own you there, too, Yale—much in the same way that we?...
Head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith maintains little hesitation in moving the versatile McCaffery to a new position. She rebounds well and moves effectively without the ball, a perfect combination on the low block...
EVAN FOR THE BLOCK...
When it comes to crime and punishment, we forcefully believe that the government has no right to put a convict’s neck on the chopping block. And most of Massachusetts agrees. So we are thankful that Gov. Mitt Romney’s proposal to reinstate capital punishment in the Commonwealth met sound defeat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives on Tuesday. But there’s no doubt that Romney’s primary motivation for introducing this hopeless bill was not so much to debate the criminal code as it was to appeal to the national conservative...