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...That's good news for shareholders in the likes of BP and Shell. But results like these can rankle consumers caught up in a cooling economy as gas prices at the pump steadily rise. Little wonder that results like these aren't trumpeted these days, but rather carefully explained. Record profit announcements from major energy firms are nothing new; those inflated oil prices have triggered a string of them in recent months. But the slowdown currently underway in the U.K., for instance, "puts a bigger onus on these companies to explain lucidly what exactly that means," says Simon Webley, research...
This interest in collaboration helps explain his shift from acting to directing. “I’m really less interested in acting and performing at this point and I’m more interested in directing, partly because it is the center for collaboration in a show,” Miller says. “I’ve enjoyed the many more challenges that directing offers...
...bittersweet feelings of a graduating senior are evident in the piece she will be presenting at Arts First. “I’m wishing I could stay here a little longer,” she says. Like a true dancer, Schreier reverts to movement when trying to explain the piece, but says that it’s full of tension, despite the airy nature of the Bach music she chose to set it against. “You have to be careful not to mirror what is happening in the music, but at the same time you have...
...Could he explain the context behind the sermon he gave after September 11, 2001? "Have you heard the whole sermon? No? That nullifies that question." How does he respond to critics who charge that he is unpatriotic? "How many years did Cheney serve?" Does the fact that Obama says he never heard Wright's most controversial sermons mean he's not much of a churchgoer? "He goes to church as much as you do. What did your pastor preach on last week...
...Puglia to have his confession heard by Padre Pio, the mysterious Italian monk with the Christ-like stigmata wounds on his hands. It was that encounter - along with Wojtyla's belief that a prayer by the Capuchin monk had cured a friend's cancer in 1962 - that helps explain why Padre Pio was fast-tracked for sainthood once Wojtyla had risen to the papacy as John Paul II. But some may now wonder if the current Pope, the cerebral and professorial Benedict XVI, has the same affinity for the popular Italian wonder-worker who died...