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...great melt may not bode well for polar bears or Inuits, but it could be a boon for shipping and transportation entrepreneurs, and none has stepped into the icy breach with more foresight than Pat Broe, a Denver-based real-estate and railroad magnate. The press-shy Broe, 58, who describes himself as a junk dealer ("I buy troubled stuff and turn it around," he says), has a history of contrarian investments. When he purchased 807 miles of nationally owned railway stock from the Canadian government for $11 million in 1997, he also picked up, for the token...
...Russia, can be unloaded at the port and carried by rail to Canada, midwestern U.S. states or even Mexico. The port is already ice-free five months of the year, and with some judicious ice- breaking that season could be extended by a full 30 days on either end. Broe, who happens to own North America's largest privately held railway, profits from both legs of the journey. "No one has ever paid attention to this port," says Broe. Global warming will make them wish they...
...letter is] important because it [givesyou] the information derived from the review--youget feedback on the quality and strengths andweaknesses of your own work," says AssociateProfessor of Government Lawrence J. Broe."Included in the letter is what you would need todo to get tenure at Harvard, so you can plan yourlife accordingly...
Student response to the gallery was positive. Barnes Ellis '87 said "No one else goes down there for any other reason. Anything else is a vast improvement." Marine Broe '87 said "I think it's wonderful. I think students who have that kind of talent should show...
While maintaining traditional secrecy about clandestine operations, Schlesinger is moving fast to lift the veil of conspiracy that has shrouded the agency. In an unprecedented move last month, he allowed a CIA agent, William Broe, the former chief of clandestine operations for the Western Hemisphere, to testify before a Senate subcommittee investigating the involvement of the CIA and the International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. in Chilean political affairs...