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...imagine someone in the energy business of old. He went to Oklahoma State University, not Harvard, and he's more interested in running pipelines than trading commodities. Dynegy is located in downtown Houston, just a block away from Enron (which, by the way, has plenty of Harvard grads eager to trade in commodities). But the two companies regularly do business together, and their families play together. So while others watched like voyeurs as Enron's value slid, the 51-year-old Watson had a different thought: he would buy the troubled firm and restore confidence in the energy markets...
...book.) Mansfield said he tends to approach more quiet students by asking them more simple questions—where they are from or what they watch on television. He also tries to tell them jokes. Once students feel comfortable, he said, usually their intelligence takes over and they are eager to share their ideas. This comfort, then, allows for the relationship to be rewarding for both parties...
...It’s something that students are very, very eager to try out this spring,” Gusmorino said...
...immediate "problem areas" being identified in Washington are Yemen, the Sudan and Somalia, and of those Somalia may be the prime target. Sudan, after all, previously kicked out bin Laden under pressure from the U.S. and Egypt, and its government remains eager to stay on good terms with Washington. Yemen may be bin Laden's ancestral homeland, but it's become a center of intense U.S. intelligence activity since the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole. Yemen's president met with President Bush on Tuesday to reaffirm his country's commitment to fighting terrorism...
...terror campaign to Iraq. The Brits fear that bombing Iraq in the absence of evidence linking Baghdad directly with the September 11 attacks could produce precisely the sort of Islam vs. the West conflict the Bush administration has been so careful to avoid - and bin Laden has been so eager to provoke...