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...limitations on the 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...
...Yukos, by contrast, says it can't get through to the authorities, no matter how hard it tries...
...contrast, each member of the Class of 2008 was required to attend eight hours of “Sex Signals” workshops, over the course of two months, to combat rape and date rape on campus. This effort informed us of the law, but also explained, in several different formats—group discussion, video, a tragicomic performance—how to prevent rape, how to recognize rape and the campus resources available to rape victims...
...contrast, tabloids, gossip magazines, and most notably cable news channels have had a field day with the Peterson case. On Fox News Channel, for example, there was nary a day during Scott Peterson’s trial that chief legal analyst Greta Van Susteren didn’t make the case front and center on her program “On the Record.” On MSNBC, meanwhile, the host of “The Abrams Report” Dan Abrams featured a segment on the trial every day until its culmination. Thankfully, network news and the mainstream newspapers...
...Bush returned to the White House on the afternoon of Election Day, chief of staff Andrew Card presented him with a five-page handwritten letter of resignation from Attorney General John Ashcroft. The letter, written a few days earlier and sent quietly to the White House, was in stark contrast to Ashcroft's often brash style as the nation's top cop. The President, distracted by exit polls suggesting that he might be heading for defeat, absorbed the thrust of Ashcroft's missive, then put it aside and said he would deal with it later...