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Before the U.S. invasion, so resolutely opposed by President Vladimir Putin, the Russians had signed contracts to develop new fields in Iraq and produce an additional 710,000 bbl. a day. Whether a new U.S.-sanctioned Iraqi government will honor those contracts remains to be seen. But beyond gaining access to Iraq's oil fields, the Russians have little interest in seeing Iraq become a major producer on the scale of Saudi Arabia. That's because Russia is a major exporter itself, earning billions in oil revenue. Though Russia might ultimately open its spigots wider than Saudi Arabia's, which...
...standing by in scarcely concealed frustration, impotent to lead Britain into the single currency, and thus to the more central role in Europe he so passionately desires? The bold wartime leader (the U.S. Senate has voted to give him the Gold Medal that is Congress's highest honor) looked like a garden-variety politician scrambling out of a tight spot last week, as stories gushed out of Whitehall saying Blair had once again crumbled under pressure to postpone a euro referendum, probably to 2005 or beyond. Subsequent leaks hinted the vote could be earlier - which was spin designed to keep...
...complex than a simple Arab-Israeli split. Of the 14 movies he has made, Israelis produced or co-produced his two best-known: Istiqlal, the story of Palestinians inside Israel on the country's Independence Day holiday; and Yasmine, about a Palestinian woman who participated in her sister's honor killing. By making his new film with Palestinian producers, Hassan found he could get closer to the truth about his own community. "Other Palestinians face you like a mirror," he says. "So the reflection is immediate." Once Palestinians can look into that mirror, he believes, they'll finally be able...
Hornstine, a high school senior from Moorestown, N.J.—and soon to be Harvard undergraduate—sued her school district after it suggested that she might have to share the honor of valedictorian with two other students...
...honor, a piece for swing band has been commissioned and will be premiered at the Harvard Band’s Dartmouth concert on Oct. 31. Donations in support of that commission may be directed to the Harvard University Band, 74 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge, MA 02138. Checks may be made payable to “The Chief’s Fund...