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Since Harvard’s divestment from PetroChina one year ago, Sinopec’s involvement in the Sudan has grown substantially. Though the exact relationship is complex because of a web of partnerships and holding companies, it is well established that Sinopec is a partner in Petrodar, which began to drill for oil in the Sudan early this year, with production expected to rise to 250,000 barrels per day by the end of the year. In the Petrodar venture, Sinopec is a partner with both the Sudanese government and the Chinese National Petroleum Company, the parent company...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: A Wise Divestment | 4/4/2006 | See Source »

...home," he says in a phone call en route to his home in New York City. Junger is by trade a prowler of battlefields and wildernesses, and his placid, well-heeled hometown was not the most obvious starting point. "I liked the idea partly because it was the exact opposite kind of story from The Perfect Storm," he says. "It's not an adventure story. There are no 100-ft. waves. And I just frankly wanted to know what happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Murderer in the Home | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

...exact numbers exist, partly because of the decentralized and temporary nature of the volunteer work. But there are at least 5,000 volunteers from colleges and churches across the country, according to the city’s newspaper, The Times-Picayune...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Volunteers Give Hope To Gulf | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

...heavily fortified compound their raid was in the spotlight, splashing across television with claims that the 16 men had been butchered as they gathered prayerfully in a mosque. Soon pictures showed bloodied bodies broken and prone over prayer mats, without a weapon in sight (U.S. army photos showed the exact opposite; dead men, weapons draped, not a prayer mat to be seen). Any military success the men of the 1st and 2nd Battalions, 1st Iraqi Special Operations Forces Brigade had was quickly swamped by a political and propaganda firestorm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exclusive: Iraqi Commander Says, "We Didn't Find a Mosque" | 3/29/2006 | See Source »

...just wonder what exactly the purpose is in having literature majors learn (or pretend to learn, or re-learn) how to do stoichiometry or memorize the exact chemical makeup of the stratosphere. Apart from an increased ability to memorize (or fake it), what do history students gain from memorizing dozens of equations only to forget everything a day later, or, as a friend put it, “copying problem sets and barely passing the final...

Author: By Rebecca D. O’brien | Title: Science B(itter) | 3/23/2006 | See Source »

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