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...willing to share intelligence to bring it down. The idea that a pariah regime like Gaddafi's can find friends and prosperity through improved behavior is one Blair and George W. Bush want the whole Middle East to register. A new $200 million oil exploration deal for the Anglo-Dutch giant Shell, with more in the pipeline, doesn't hurt either. For his part, Gaddafi is tired of isolation and sanctions, which have cost Libya tens of billions of dollars. Yes, he's a dictator, not a democrat of the sort Bush and Blair say they want to foster...
...friend of mine from home is a self-proclaimed metrosexual. You know those Von Dutch hats that Paris Hilton wears. When you see them in the store, you wonder: Who’d ever spend fifty bucks on that? Well the answer is, he would. He’s the kind of guy that spends his Saturday afternoons shopping downtown, dropping hundreds of dollars on designer jeans, shoes, belts and whatever other must-have accessories for the self-proclaimed metrosexual he can find. And what is most surprising is that this nameless friend—a football player for University...
...Management Shell Game What if they gave a business scandal and no one came? Royal Dutch/Shell plunged deeper into crisis last week as new details emerged about how the Anglo-Dutch oil giant overstated its reserves. But for the moment investors don't seem to care. Shell's stock barely budged after a report in the New York Times alleged that the newly appointed chairman, Jeroen van der Veer, was one of several executives who may have known about the reserves shortage two years before the company cut its official estimate by 20% in January. Even a deepening investigation...
...benefits of international competition. That kind of talk could move Barber's job offshore. - By Adam Smith Running On Empty Philip Watts caved in to shareholder pressure and stepped down from his post as chairman of oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell. His resignation came two months after the Anglo-Dutch firm was forced to cut its proven oil and gas reserves estimate...
...proliferation safeguards, and new revelations from A. Q. Khan, a Pakistani atomic scientist who has admitted passing nuclear design secrets on to Iran, North Korea and Libya. Khan obtained those design secrets, allegedly based on URENCO drawings, after being employed in the 1970's by a subsidiary of a Dutch company that worked closely with URENCO...