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Just last month another Equator Principles member, Credit Suisse First Boston, found itself the target of new global protests for its decision to underwrite Shell's controversial Sakhalin II pipeline in the northern Pacific, a project that environmentalists say threatens the endangered western gray whale. Without adequate transparency and monitoring of sensitive projects, NGOs fear, the Equator Principles will become meaningless. "What good is a series of principles like this if you can't verify that they are being applied on a project-by-project basis?" asks Oil Change's Kretzmann. "Equator banks are saying to people, 'Trust...
...success and their fear about what comes next. Kristen Beyer was recruited for swimming, not soldiering, and struggled to find her place in the post-9/11 Army--until she first got a taste of flying a Blackhawk. Now she, too, is eager to join the long gray line of West Point graduates alongside her thousand fellow cadets of the class...
...Staff writer Katherine M. Gray can be reached at kmgray@fas.harvard.edu...
FRANCINE DU PLESSIX GRAY...
...title of her memoir aptly describes the gulf Gray perceived between her and her parents. Her mother, the vain and extravagant hat designer Tatiana, and her stepfather Alexander Liberman, who rose to become the editorial director of Condé Nast, were dedicated to each other and to their mutual ascent in post--World War II New York City society, lavishing attention on friends like Marlene Dietrich and Irving Penn but often neglecting the young woman sharing their home. The book is a brisk, bittersweet and ultimately forgiving look at two larger-than-life figures and the shadows they cast...