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...Administration's plan to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and exempt oil companies for two years from paying government royalties on oil obtained under new drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico. Taking notes for Senate Democrats, Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., called the product a $7.4 billion ''grab bag of goodies for big oil'' and an ''unprecedented assault on our resources...
...public meeting ended in White City, the angry ranchers began sounding less like noble John Ford homesteaders and more like Oliver Stone conspiracy theorists convinced the feds are on a land grab. The ranchers and loggers seem outnumbered by monument supporters (people who attended three public hearings seemed to favor the designation by a ratio of 2 to 1). But this week the Jackson County board of commissioners will make recommendations to Interior Secretary Norton, and it is expected that the wide-ranging public support will be tempered with the concerns of businesses...
...complex trek in which a South Korean businessman led them to Beijing, the Jangs gathered June 26 for what they feared would be their final breakfast together. When they finished, the family matriarch gave everybody, including her teenage grandkids, small tablets of rat poison: if the police were to grab them, they would commit collective suicide. They then marched into a United Nations office to demand sanctuary. "They preferred death to being taken back," says Moon Guk Han, the businessman who helped them...
Harvard’s behind-the-scenes land grab in Allston stretched town-gown relations with Boston. Grogan’s short tenure was marked by a concerted effort to improve these relations...
...sprint inside just in time to see Caroline, still trussed, wheeled past on a mobile bed and into a room. "Look," Kevin say, not squeamish but trying to consider what's best. "You don't need people here. Let me get out of your way." He goes to grab a cab, and though I know Caroline adores Uncle Kevin and would always want him around, I let him go-not least, because he's right...