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...Varnum stressed that the BSA would ultimately determine its own fate. In addition to its involvement with the first-year program, the BSA administers student course evaluations, moot court exercises and contract law simulations...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Law Student Forced Off Panel | 12/1/2004 | See Source »

Brown said he changed his service from T-Mobile to Verizon Wireless a month and a half ago when his contract expired. With Verizon, he said, his reception is better—his cell phone registers two bars of signal strength from inside his Currier room, where he used to get none...

Author: By Victoria Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Quadlings Can’t Get Cell Reception | 11/30/2004 | See Source »

...private sector, particularly foreign companies. Under the terms of the Conoco deal, for example, the American company can raise its stake in Lukoil - but only to a ceiling of 20%, less than the 25% it needs to be able to block strategic company decisions. BP, by contrast, whose contract was signed eight months before Khodorkovsky's arrest, has a 50% share in its Russian joint venture. "That's a deal we won't see repeated," says Jonathan Stern of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. "The climate now is for strategic minority investments by foreign companies in Russian energy." Says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Power Play | 11/28/2004 | See Source »

...sector, particularly foreign companies. Under the terms of the Conoco deal, for example, the American company can raise its stake in Lukoil--but only to a ceiling of 20%. That's less than the 25% it needs to be able to block strategic company decisions. BP, by contrast, whose contract was signed eight months before Khodorkovsky's arrest, has a 50% share in its Russian joint venture. (The company's Russian minority shareholders are howling because BP uses a complicated transfer-pricing method that allows the parent company, instead of subsidiaries, to book the lion's share of profits.) "That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Power Play | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

LIZA MINNELLI was sued by former bodyguard M'Hammed Soumayah. HE SAYS she beat him and coerced him into sex. In a countersuit, SHE SAYS he's in breach of contract and fiduciary duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Stars Allegedly Attack | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

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