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...ethical investment for all oil companies. After all, if some regime is too sordid or controversial for a publicly listed U.S. oil company, there are plenty of other national oil companies in countries that do not care much for human rights and are willing to make a quick buck without competition. Boycotts and divestment are meaningless unless there are harsh penalties for not complying. “Harsh penalties” generally mean government sanctions and not the shrill cries (or silent protest) of college students several thousand miles away...
Regardless, she and her fellow students from the South have had to buck positive and negative stereotypes. Over 300 of them have joined the Southern Society (or at least their e-mail list), an organization formed to provide a community for those trying to acclimate to a place that doesn’t quite remind them of home...
PENN: I sent you that note first 'cause I thought you were so great in that movie Buck Henry wrote...
...remain a dream, or nightmare, for years to come, it is very much a gleam in the Pentagon's eye. Working largely through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a special unit devoted to exotic weaponry, military planners are developing a generation of computerized land and air systems that Buck Rogers would envy. Prototypes are being built by defense contractors around the U.S., and will be tested in coming months at sites ranging from private proving grounds to engineering laboratories...
...redneck riffs, Captain Maximus provides a surprising counterpoint. The last and longest of the eight stories has nothing at all to do with the South. Subtitled "An Idea for Film," Power and Light jumps and pans and crosscuts its way around Seattle. Hardworking women come intermittently into focus. Polly Buck, for example, labors at the City Lights Powerhouse: "This girl is chaining your breakfast together, citizen. She is hitching the light up for your asinine patio party, your old starlight teevee movies, your electric toothbrush, vibrator, Magic Fingers." Maureen, a black woman who supports her heroin-addicted brother, operates...