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...last Wednesday of September, Russia's second largest oil company, Lukoil, hoisted the Stars and Stripes up a flagpole outside its Moscow headquarters to celebrate a landmark deal: with a $2 billion bid, the U.S. firm ConocoPhillips had just won an auction for the Russian government's 7.6% stake in the firm. The two companies promptly announced a strategic alliance to develop oil reserves in the Russian Arctic and potentially work together in Iraq. For Jim Mulva, Conoco's president and chief executive, the deal amounted to a coup, giving Conoco access to 8 billion bbl. of proven oil reserves...
DIED. IRIS CHANG, 36, historian whose landmark 1997 best seller The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II chronicled the grisly rape, torture and murder of hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians by Japanese soldiers in the former Chinese capital in the late 1930s; a suicide; near Los Gatos, Calif. Chang, whose book was the first full-length nonfiction account of the brutality, said, "I didn't care if I made a cent from it. I wrote it out of a sense of rage." She was hospitalized for depression earlier this year as she was researching...
...year after a landmark Massachusetts court decision declared that limiting marriage to heterosexual couples is unconstitutional, students at Harvard Law School (HLS) argued the issue before Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg...
...city in World War II, in which the Japanese army killed thousands of people?a death toll possibly even higher than that of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?have been relegated to a historical footnote? Driven to find the answer, Chang wrote The Rape of Nanking, a landmark work of history that helped push the 1937 bloodbath into the public's consciousness and the then-29-year-old American to the forefront of nonfiction writing. Criticized by some Japanese scholars who questioned its accuracy, Chang's book received wide acclaim almost everywhere else; the late Stephen Ambrose called...
...sprouting in the 1960s and '70s in cities such as Minneapolis and Seattle, and children's playwrights began to tackle more serious social issues, from adjusting to a stepmother (Suzan Zeder's Step on a Crack) to the Holocaust (James Still's And Then They Came for Me). A landmark play like The Yellow Boat--which David Saar, who runs the enterprising Childsplaytheater in Tempe, based on the death of his son, a hemophiliac, from AIDS at age 8--is as theatrically bold and emotionally wrenching as any recent American drama...