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...however, the company must also focus on investigating those suspect payments in Libya, and limiting the damage if wrongdoing is uncovered. On Oct. 4, Hydro said it had contacted Okokrim, the Norwegian national authority that investigates economic crime, after an initial probe suggested Hydro had done more business with the consultancy than was previously thought. Packed into a room with reporters in Molde, a short drive and ferry trip from Nyhamna, StatoilHydro's new boss Lund scoffed at any talk that the revelations might disrupt the smooth integration of the two firms. "I'm the strongest guarantor for that...
...Huckleberry Finn - few can rival the cultural impact or staying power of that brilliant sleuth, Sherlock Holmes. Since his debut 120 years ago, the gaunt gentleman with the curved pipe and a taste for cocaine, the master of deductive reasoning and elaborate disguise, has left his mark everywhere - in crime literature, film and television, cartoons and comic books. Even his home on Baker Street has for decades been one of London's most popular tourist destinations: the Sherlock Holmes Museum...
...writing long historical novels in the vein of Sir Walter Scott - novels that he was convinced would make his reputation. It wasn't to be. In 1888, Holmes reappeared in A Scandal in Bohemia, a short story in Strand Magazine. An immediate hit, its hero took the foggy, crime-ridden London of gas street lights and Jack the Ripper by storm - and Conan Doyle's life would never be the same...
ANTONIO MARIA COSTA, executive director of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, on Afghanistan's record opium harvest after President Hamid Karzai's repeated opposition to spraying pesticide on his country's poppy fields...
...number of crimes committed on campus dropped for the third year in a row last year, according to annual crime statistics recently released by the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD). The decrease in crime was largely a result of a substantial decrease in the number of burglaries, which dropped 18 percent between 2005 and 2006, the most recent year reported. The total number of crimes declined 13 percent, from 528 to 457, over that time period. In addition, since 2003, the overall crime rate dropped 30 percent, a trend that stands in contrast to most other Ivy league schools?...