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...Meehan is sipping coffee by the rooftop pool of the tony Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills. From the ankles up, he's obviously a visitor from the Northeast, swathed in a tweed jacket despite the sunny skies and warm temperature. But on his feet is a dash of West Coast: a brand-new pair of brown suede New Balance sneakers. "Mel got me these," he explains. "He said I looked too much like a New Yorker in my black dress shoes." The munificent Mel is Mel Brooks, and the bond between Meehan and Brooks has been that much stronger since...
...boycott calls that led to a change of management and a complete revamp of Shell's ethical standards and operating behavior. Disaster is also behind Total's ethical epiphany. In December 1999, when the oil tanker Erika sank off Brittany, spewing Total oil up and down the French Atlantic coast, French TV showed agonizing pictures of oil-drenched beaches and suffocating seabirds. For two long weeks, Total stood behind the thin excuse that the tanker did not belong to the company. "What we didn't know at the beginning was that we had a genuine catastrophe on our hands," said...
...farmers and fishermen who live in jungle villages along the southern coast of Burma were long overlooked and neglected by their government. And they liked it that way, given the notorious methods of the country's military dictatorship. But their lives changed horribly, they say, after two oil companies, the U.S. giant Unocal and its French partner Total, began exploiting natural-gas deposits offshore. The gas discovery prompted construction of a $1.2 billion pipeline through hundreds of miles of rain forest to an electrical plant in neighboring Thailand. At that point, villagers contend, the government began to view them...
...Dominion’s Anna Tunnicliffe took first in the opening race and never looked back, winning six of the remaining 14 races to coast to an easy 27-point victory...
However, Bell scored on a buzzer-beating coast-to-coast layup to give Harvard a 48-43 lead at the intermission...