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...screws on foreign oil and gas firms operating in Venezuela by raising their taxes and royalties and forcing them to concede majority stakes in their projects to the government. Few plan to pull out of Venezuela, however, given the record profits they're earning there. And with crude prices at astronomical levels, Chavez has used his petro-largesse - including programs to provide cash-strapped neighbors with cheaper access to Venezuelan oil and to build continent-wide pipelines for oil and natural gas - to create what he hopes could someday be an E.U.-style economic partnership in Latin America (though analysts...
...President visited the service station to discuss a number of largely ineffectual remedies for pulling down prices, some of which Rove had previously discussed in the staff chiefs' meeting. Bush suspended additional deliveries to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to divert that crude to the market. He called for more tax incentives for hybrid cars, fewer environmental hurdles for refinery builders, drilling wells in the Arctic and congressional authority to raise mileage requirements on cars. Senate majority leader Bill Frist, who earlier in the week had advised voters to drive slower and get a tune-up, was fronting a Republican proposal...
...Birds” from Walt Disney’s “Mary Poppins.” The performers casually took advantage of their feathers to crack out light puns—“right-wing politics” anyone? The Classics Club may have gone overboard with crude sexual humor, but they redeemed themselves with cute and clever literary allusions to “Hamlet” and “The Odyssey.” Indisputably, the performers took advantage of a great script. Not only did they articulately roll their tongues around lengthy rhymes chock full...
...standup or his darker turns in recent comedies like “Death to Smoochy” may find this shift to potty humor lackluster. That being said, “R.V.” is obviously not meant to be a pointed comedy; it’s a crude PG-rated family flick. While it follows a hackneyed story line, pop-culture jokes give the film a degree of freshness. Williams, Hines, and co-stars Jeff Daniels (“The Squid and the Whale”) and Kristen Chenowith (“The Pink Panther?...
This led, predictably, to a kind of spiritual emptiness: restless, confused beings who sought crude material fulfillment. For Fitzgerald, the nouveau riche were vulgar and ostentatious, and the old aristocracy not much better. Though graceful, he found the latter bored (Jordan), shallow (Jordan, Daisy), or thick (Tom). All were confused; all were unhappy. The title then, is ironic, and the “great” refers less to reality than to Gatsby’s misguided ambitions, most of them unfulfilled...