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...long grumbled about production-sharing agreements it signed with the three Western firms in the 1990s, when oil prices were one-sixth their current level and Moscow was strapped for cash. "This is what happens when Russian oil companies have their headquarters at the Kremlin," says Robert Amsterdam, the lawyer for Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed former head of Russian oil company Yukos, which authorities seized and broke up in late 2004. Remarks by a top official at Gazprom, the national energy monolith, just two days after Shell's setback, fueled speculation that it was trying to get a big piece...
...unit was a complete U-turn after it had been fused with the fixed-line only two years ago, contends Michele Pollo, chairman of the economics department at Milan's Bocconi University. "It's hard to understand just what they have in mind, strategically," says Pollo. For now, Milanese lawyer Guido Rossi has stepped in as acting chairman. But with Tronchetti Provera still the controlling shareholder, the company must look hard for new investor blood. After the September fiasco, it could turn into a very cold winter...
...York City lawyer Judith Kurzweil is juggling a lot of balls. She works full time and has twin daughters, 10, at home--and more than two years ago, her mother Irene, 86 and struggling with her health, moved in with the family. In Kurzweil's mind, a nursing home was not the right choice. But her mother's poor health made getting her to a doctor very difficult. Kurzweil's solution: Dr. Andrew W. Lyons, a New Age Marcus Welby who makes house calls, little black bag--a padded black computer bag--and all. "It's an amazing lifesaver," says...
...stealing, there are still five maps missing from Houghton, and Harvard College Libraries spokeswoman Beth Brainard said she thinks Smiley may have taken them. “I know that Smiley used all the books from which the maps are missing,” Brainard said. Robert E. Goldman, lawyer for the British Library, was more definite in attributing unresolved map thefts to Smiley. Although Smiley and his lawyer Richard Reeve were unavailable for comment, the memo they submitted on Tuesday argued that such allegations are “reckless, unsubstantiated, and unfair,” and that...
...lawyer told me he was trying to get the case dismissed but that the district attorney was being aggressive and trying to put me in jail and hold me responsible for what Steven did,” he said. “The district attorney thinks I should pay for the consequences...