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Your report on Hugo Chavez Frias, President of Venezuela and host of the 40th anniversary summit of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries [BUSINESS, Oct. 9], served to support my view that developed countries should desist from blaming OPEC for economic problems that may result from rising oil prices. OPEC countries are entitled to use their natural resources to develop economically. They do not need Western countries dictating how much they want to pay for a barrel of oil. If the Western countries cannot afford to buy oil from OPEC because of the high prices, then they can do themselves...
...site caved under pressure when sued for posting raw VNS exit polling numbers early in the afternoon of the New Hampshire primary, that threat hasn't stopped Matt Drudge, either a bolder proponent of First Amendment rights or someone who long ago stopped reading those "cease and desist" letters in his mailbox, who posted early numbers all afternoon...
...game plan. The Palestinians--and the Israelis--have rushed into a mind-set in which bloodletting has overtaken common sense, religious and ethnic hatred have overwhelmed political disagreement. Each vicious act has inspired vicious reprisal, locking the combatants in a circle in which neither is ready or willing to desist first. In the process, both have inflicted wounds that cut to the core of their dilemma: how to coexist. Logic, even self-interest, has been sacrificed to emotions run out of control...
...beautiful heart and a brilliant mind whose life was taken from him in the first moments of college by life-threatening conditions that did not have to exist. As members of Scott's family as well as of the Harvard community, we take offense and ask that The Crimson desist from ever again referencing Scott Krueger as "a first-year who drank himself to death." And, as MIT President Vest said in his press release, let us "now move on with the healing process...
...beginning to gnaw at Clinton's popularity ratings: Late last week, it was clear Clinton was up against a wall; there was no way for her to avoid the issue altogether without appearing untrustworthy - after all, Lazio not only met her debate-night challenge by collecting cease-and-desist pledges from various soft-money donors, but he never demanded reciprocation. And it wasn't just Lazio's impeccable timing that pulled the rug out from under Clinton: The agreement itself puts her at a distinct economic disadvantage - something Lazio may well have considered as he made the issue...