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...determined to curtail U.S. and foreign influence in Latin America. He has panicked already bug-eyed energy markets this year by raising taxes and royalties on Venezuelan oil piped by what he calls scofflaw foreign oil firms, including U.S. giants like ExxonMobil. He's insisting that they convert their drilling contracts into joint ventures that give the government a majority stake...
With tailgates ostensibly shut down by halftime, the Yale Bowl boasted a final attendance of 53,213, the most of any collegiate football game in New England this year...Although the Crimson was 5-of-15 in third-down conversions on the day, it managed to convert on all three of its fourth-down attempts. The Bulldogs, on the other hand, finished the day 10-of-22 on third down...With five straight wins in the Harvard-Yale rivalry, the Crimson now has its longest streak in the 122-year history of the Game...Saturday was not only the first...
...necessity, start several years in advance. We do, however, object to his abuse of the legislature and blatant defiance of the will of his constituents. To use his personal time to prepare for his political future is one thing, but to hijack his state’s legislature and convert it into a national showcase of his political agenda is quite another. The issues that Romney continues to needlessly push—reinstating capital punishment and, most prominently, banning same-sex marriage—have already been sufficiently debated, and the electorate’s will has been made clear...
...projectors. But paying for ongoing costs, such as transferring films from 35-mm to digital, encoding them and getting them to movie theaters, calls for more creative solutions. Avica, which makes servers, wants to digitize all 500-odd screens in Ireland using private funding. In its bid to convert 500 screens across Europe by 2007, Belgian firm XDC will charge theater owners a small monthly fee and make up the difference itself. And at Disney, which recently installed 84 digital projectors in the U.S. to show a 3-D version of its big-buzz animation Chicken Little, senior vice president...
...staff are planned at least six months in advance. Despite this, we have produced four successful shows.The final constraint faced by HCC is the limited availability of appropriate venues at Harvard. There is no ready-made concert venue, but merely spaces used for other events that the HCC must convert. Sanders Theatre’s seating is limited; Lavietes and Gordon Track are first and foremost athletic arenas and are only available through the kind cooperation of Harvard Athletics. The primary use of these venues requires that concerts happen on off-days, namely Sundays. While the planning process can take...