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...subject of buying Unocal had never before been discussed at a board meeting?which meant that when they sat down with CNOOC's CEO Fu Chengyu and other top executives on March 29 in a conference room at the Island Shangri-La in Hong Kong, they were in for a shock. CNOOC, Fu told them, was ready to make a play for the Los Angeles-based oil company. "The ship was about to leave the port, and the [directors] hadn't even known there was a ship," says one adviser to CNOOC with knowledge of the meeting...
DIED. HANK STRAM, 82, innovative football coach and winner of more games than anyone in the history of the American Football League (AFL); of complications from diabetes; in Covington, La. He took the Kansas City Chiefs to the first Super Bowl, where the upstart AFL champs were trounced by the mighty Green Bay Packers. Three years later, he led the Chiefs to an upset victory over the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl IV, helping to cement the legitimacy of the fledgling...
DIED. CLAUDE SIMON, 91, leading figure in France's "nouveau roman," or new novel, literary movement; author of such acclaimed, stylistically challenging novels as La Route Des Flandres (The Flanders Road) in 1960; and winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize for literature; in Paris...
This scene is being replayed often throughout the Plains as a fast-growing band of land-granting imitators has taken root from La Villa, Texas, to Chugwater, Wyo., to New Richland, Minn. Dozens of towns have some version of a land giveaway, and dozens more are considering it. "The giveaways worked once, after the Civil War," says David Darling, an expert in rural affairs at Kansas State University. "They have potential to work again...
...Luckily with this movie, there weren’t very many negative reviews out there from serious critics. I was proud of the finished product long before any reviews came out. But the LA and NY Times both gave positive reviews to the film, which was just icing on the cake...