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...when Bush was unloading those shares for $848,000, Harken was sliding down. The company, which owned everything from drill rigs to gas stations, was losing millions of dollars trading oil on the commodities market. With its balance sheet deteriorating, Harken devised a sale of 80% of a chain of gas stations, Aloha Petroleum in Hawaii, to an entity that included the company's chairman and another director. Harken recorded a gain of $7.9 million to offset other losses and finished the year $3.3 million in the red--bad, but far better than the reality...
...given orders to the likes of Paul Newman and Tom Hanks, Sam Mendes hardly cuts an imposing figure. The soft-spoken, moon-faced Englishman who directed Road to Perdition and American Beauty, which won Best Director and Best Picture Oscars, is more Cambridge humanities lecturer than drill sergeant: he pays attention to his actors' needs. "Tom is freer in front of the camera, wants to improvise more," Mendes explains. "Paul needs to be more precise, to know exactly what you want." Neither man seems a natural choice for the hard-boiled '30s gangsters they play in Perdition, but Mendes relished...
...make policy decisions based on politics, he is certainly willing to nudge policy to help a Republican candidate in need. Simon paid a visit to the White House Wednesday, and when he emerged, he announced that Bush had said he would talk with Simon about prohibiting offshore oil drilling off the California coast. (Davis has been fighting the White House on this issue for some time.) Bush has been a proponent of offshore drilling as a way to alleviate energy concerns. But despite his dire warnings that the country has to drill more, Bush will give California a reprieve...
Harvard’s ROTC program dates back to 1916, when the first army drill unit was established and 1,200 students enlisted...
...much was even noted in Moscow. The Russian humor magazine Krokodil lambasted Harvard in its Sept. 30 edition for being under the thumb of the U.S. military. It even ran a cartoon on its back page entitled “Mathematics,” which showed a drill sergeant shouting “one, two, one, two” at a group of Harvard students carrying rifles...