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...investment firm such as HMC might buy energy futures so that it can make a profit if the cost of oil rises above the contract’s pre-set price. By contrast, the rest of the University has no choice but to buy oil. Its incentive for entering the futures market is to shield itself from a budget crunch in the event that energy prices soar...
...HAVE ACCUSED PRESIDENT BUSH OF "MORAL VACANCY." WOULD YOU CONTRAST HIM WITH A GUY LIKE SHERMAN? There's a passage in the book about the inability to understand death, when Sherman is giving a kind of a soliloquy. His troops have taken a fort just before entering Savannah, and they lie down to sleep beside the dead bodies of the Confederates who were defending the fort. He's drinking a cup of wine, smoking a cigar and thinking about the difference between sleep and death, and how hard it is to understand death. Some people make the effort to understand...
Solid training is a key to the Latin influx. In contrast to the U.S., where training is haphazard except at a few top companies, many Latin countries have excellent ballet schools, often subsidized by the government, where youngsters are put through a rigorous classical regimen. Spain boasts a fine school run by former Maurice Béjart dancer Víctor Ullate. Argentina has another, at the century-old Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. But the most celebrated and influential school in the Latin world is the one attached to Cuba's National Ballet, supported by Castro since 1959 and presided...
...contrast, current criminal probes of lawmakers are expanding rapidly. Like the Abramoff probe, the investigation into former Republican Representative Randy ?Duke? Cunningham from San Diego is also widening. Last week, defense contractor Mitchell Wade of MZM, Inc., pleaded guilty to supplying more than $1 million of the $2.4 million in bribes Cunningham previously admitted taking in a scheme that touches Defense Department officials and two other members of Congress. A Defense Department spokesman tells TIME that "there is an ongoing review by appropriate organizations within the Department" as to whether the Cunningham- and MZM-linked intelligence contracts would have compromised...
...grades, adds to the ongoing debate among educators over the weight placed on AP exam scores.Many educators question whether a score of three or above on an AP test should allow a student to bypass introductory level courses, as is the policy at many colleges. At Harvard, by contrast, “AP Biology does not substitute for any concentration requirement in biologyâ€â€”including the requirement that concentrators must take an introductory course, according to the undergraduate student handbook. Freshmen who scored 4 or 5 on the AP exam in chemistry can enroll...