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...reliance on foreign oil spawns problems abroad like the morass the nation has been drawn into in the Middle East. In addition to our economic vulnerability to OPEC policy and our morally questionable military entanglements, we contribute heftily to the economies of some quite un-democratic nations in the region with our oil purchases. Oil exploration has also led to other (underpublicized) foreign affairs debacles like the virtual plunder of Ecuador by Texaco and Shell's appalling exploitation of Nigerian oil in cooperation with the despotic government...
Harvard and B.C. (18-9-2, 12-5 Hockey East) battled for third place in the 1999 Beanpot Tournament. This was their second meeting within the month, following the Crimson's 3-1 upset over the Eagles on January 13th. Both Harvard and B.C. were sent to the consolation game after overtime losses in the first round last Monday...
From MIT's East Cambridge campus to his hometown of Tempe, Ariz., Manley's friends and family are mourning their loss. "He was a wonderful boy who filled our lives with joy," said William Manley...
Xiguang Li, author and senior editor of the Xinhua News Agency in China, will research the birth of a new kind of journalism in a more market-driven Chinese society. Romanian journalist and political author Alina Pippidi-Mungiu will focus on television reform in East-central Europe...
...flew east, Buckwheat filled me in. "STUPID ideas have been on a tear since the Oakland school board declared that Ebonics was an official language," he began. "Then a few months ago, some black militants in New York City scared a young white teacher out of her job for using a wonderful book called Nappy Hair to teach kids that black is beautiful...