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...consultancy or what laws Hydro might have broken, StatoilHydro said the payments came to light during the merger process. Reiten wasn't involved in Hydro's energy operations when those payments began in 2000--he was boss of the company's aluminum division at the time--but the potential conflict of interest during the investigation left him little choice but to resign as the combined company's first chairman. (He remains CEO of Hydro's aluminum and power businesses, which were not part of the merger.) "It's been an eventful week," Reiten, 54, told TIME amid the icy rain...
...scared of Blackwater personnel, that's good. The question is, Why aren't they equally scared of the U.S. military? Because of the ridiculously restrictive rules of engagement. The terrorists are brutal, and until we decide to retaliate in the same way, we should stay out of any conflict. I say good for the private security forces. At least somebody is kicking butt. Steven J. Hillesheim, PALATINE...
...Golis is reluctant to overstate the conflict created by the differing occupations in his social circle, but admits feeling a certain disconnect when in conversation with some of his peers in the financial sector. “There are the people who get really excited about it and try to talk about it. They have a lingo, and everything. I don’t know where their enthusiasm comes from, because what they’re doing doesn’t seem to be particularly meaningful.” Mahan says, “I personally do feel called...
...seen as one long, connected process, he suggested. In an interview before the lecture, Hahn explained his take on this part of history. “I’m interested in playing around with one of the central frameworks of American history, which is the idea of sectional conflict, and the idea that slavery was a regional institution rather than a national one,” Hahn said. In what turned out to be a controversial comparison, Hahn likened the communities of African-Americans in the North during the nineteenth century to the Maroons in the West Indies, groups...
Currently, the Pakistani army is conflicted over its orders to battle jihadists, says Husain Haqqani, a former senior Pakistani diplomat and political operative who is now a professor at Boston University. "These large numbers of troops who are virtually surrendering themselves to the insurgents in Waziristan without putting up a fight would not have done so if they were not conflicted within themselves," he told a congressional panel recently. "That conflict comes from a belief system after years of having been told that the jihadists represent a force for good. And now that they are being told to fight them...