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Tillerson plays a key role in ExxonMobil's efforts to find new fields, especially in Russia, where he is well connected to officialdom, all the way up to President Vladimir Putin. If he can grab a greater presence there, he will help assure the company's future--and maybe his own. --By Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas
...Listen,” I said, “haven’t we got some Betty Friedan in the basement? And I know The Second Sex is down there somewhere. Or, I tell you what, I’ll just dash down and grab something by Gloria Steinem. You can hand it to them on their way out. We’ll evangelize. We’ll be like the feminist version of Jehovah’s Witnesses...
...Gaschler's backpack ablaze, too, he says. "My friends couldn't intervene as there were eight or nine of them," he told Time. One friend did manage to call the police, who arrived too late to make an arrest. The next day, an 18-year-old man named Robin Grab was charged with inflicting bodily harm based on Gaschler's description...
...United States Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), an ill-advised grab bag of heavy-handed measures responding to very real fears of Internet-enabled music and video piracy. Since its passage, the uses of the DMCA by music and movie publishers have borne out many of the worries expressed by its critics. And the problem is headed into your dorm room, as a recent episode here at Harvard drives home all too clearly...
...last thing on my mind." As far as he's concerned, the two of them couldn't be more different. "It bugs me how in his movies everyone has to love each other, how the moral is always so clear," says Kon. Miyazaki assembles fairy tales from a grab bag of myth and sorcery; Kon's creativity is grounded in the concrete of urban Japan...