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Official blogs are the polar opposite. Where people like Christopher Allbritton are trying to transcend mainstream media (with a fraction of their resources), official blogs are attempting to repackage them. Of the three major American 24-hour news outlets—MSNBC, CNN and Fox—two have dedicated staff members to permanent blogs (CNN is still lacking in this regard). Fox in particular devotes a substantial section of its website to its daily selection of five or six blogs. They seem to be mainly targeted at generating interest in Fox’s various news-talk shows...
...fairness, if the University still owns the stock, the estimated value of the investment in PetroChina is a mere 0.02 percent of Harvard’s endowment and a fraction of that company’s public holdings. Yet the relative amount of money does not matter in this case: Any amount of money, any fraction of a dollar that Harvard invests in a company with such a disregard for the ethical implications of its activities is too much...
Consequently the doctoral program will be able to spend only a fraction of Wyss’ gift in the coming year...
...Webster claimed that industrial operations, such as the Mirant Kendall Station, only account for a fraction of the Charles’s pollution...
...vast Siberian oil fields. The subsidiary, which pumps 1 million bbl. of oil per day - about 60% of Yukos' output - has been valued by Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein at between $14.7 and $17.3 billion. Reports last week suggested the Kremlin might hand it to a Russian rival, Gazprom, for a fraction of that price. "It's robbery in broad daylight," complains Robert Amsterdam, a lawyer for Khodorkovsky, who says the Kremlin has no right to proceed with what he terms "the world's largest hostile takeover." So far the firm isn't saying whether it will mount...