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...than 40 in Africa. Those might be obvious goals for many companies; at Total, they seem imperative. The company has been battered at home and abroad over the past four years by a series of scandals: a high-profile corruption trial that last month sent former top managers to jail, allegations that in the mid-'90s, the company used forced labor to build a gas pipeline in Burma (renamed Myanmar by the regime) - which Total vigorously denies - and the 1999 wreck of the tanker Erika, which created a devastating oil spill that polluted some of France's best-loved beaches...
...billion - second only to Yukos oil baron Mikhail Khodorkovsky's $8 billion. Both men leapt from rags to riches in the giddy, shady privatization era of the early 1990s - and their companies agreed to merge last April - but their lives have since diverged. Khodorkovsky, 40, is now in jail, charged with embezzlement and tax evasion in what many call a politically motivated attack by President Vladimir Putin (Khodorkovsky denies the charges). And Abramovich, 37, can often be found at London's 42,000-seat Stamford Bridge stadium, watching his Chelsea Football Club play in the Premiership. Abramovich has inherited...
Locked up along with the protesters they were supposed to be studying, four Harvard students spent Friday night in Miami jail cells after being arrested at last week’s protests against a Western hemisphere free trade zone...
...protest Friday started initially in front of the Miami jail where protesters arrested Thursday were being held, but had moved several streets away by the time the Harvard students arrived...
...four were released after spending the night in jail on bail ranging from $500 to $1,500, which was posted by Hayden and Beckett’s family...