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...consumers, petroleum experts warn that the cartel could get the upper hand again in the 1990s. By then, many alternative sources, notably Alaskan and North Sea oil fields, will be on the decline. Low crude prices could help OPEC make a comeback by discouraging exploration for new sources. Says Elihu Bergman, executive director of Americans for Energy Independence: "We shouldn't let down our guard. We should take advantage of this to prepare for the future...
...Electronic Ceremonies," Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz examine the media's responsibility for the performance-as-reality, recalling how Charles and Di's royal nuptials were transformed into a product for public consumption by the mass invitations sent out via television, the "class equalizer." Roland Barthes's "I Hear and I Obey..." goes to obscenity's other extreme, reducing audience participation to instinctive impulse. Guido Crepax's comic strip, "The Story of O," illustrates how it is in the insidious positioning of narrator and audience that pornographic outrage finds expression; as Barthes observes from the sidelines, O's sexual organ...
...ticket features likenesses of John Harvard and Elihu Yale and a 19th-century Sir Walter Scott poem: Then strip, lads, and to it, though sharp the weather. And if, by mischance, you should happen to fall. There are worse things in life than a tumble on heather...
...turns out that Harvard sailed on the same boat with Edward Hopkins, the uncle of Elihu Yale, a man who did a similar favor for a struggling New Haven college in 1718. Never mind the differences in the patron saints--Harvard was a stern religious man while Yale, the governor of Madras, used his official position to reap a fortune in the diamond trade and sent his wife off to England alone while he lived with a Portuguese mistress...
...part in Exxon's decision. After U.S. Navy planes shot down two Libyan jets over the Mediterranean last summer, the State Department sent a letter to American oil companies calling for their cooperation with the Administration's efforts to cut off U.S. relations with Gaddafi. Says Elihu Bergman, executive director of Americans for Energy Independence: "I'm sure that some jawboning took place between the Administration and Exxon." While the State Department took no credit for Exxon's move, one pleased official said that it would "deal a blow to Libya" and was "clearly in line...