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Plummeting oil prices can do both grievous harm and enormous good. Less expensive oil means lower energy costs for consumers and companies, which can give a substantial boost to U.S. and worldwide growth. At the same time, however, a further fall in oil prices could deal a crippling blow to U.S. energy firms and debt-ridden oil producers, including Mexico, Nigeria and Venezuela. Their woes might then threaten banks and rock the international financial system. Says Edward Yardeni, chief economist for Prudential-Bache Securities: "The oil-price collapse suddenly woke people up to the fact that the financial crisis...
...studios know that one week of Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd walking into walls in Spies Like Us will gross as much as Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo during its entire run. And a film like Rambo taps the hidden rage of urban blacks and lower-class whites who feel cheated out of a future. They can't shoot Mommy and Daddy, so they watch Sly shoot up the world." With hits like these, who needs flops...
Also found were two cone-shaped objects described as "about 10 feet" in diameter. One had an attached parachute, indicating it came from one of the solid rocket boosters blown up. Each booster is 12 feet in diameter and contains four parachutes designed to lower the spent rockets to the ocean for retrieval...
According to Dowling, the strong showing by the lower-ranked Harvard team members manifests the depth of the Harvard team. "Any number of people on the team could have taken it," Dowling said...
This past weekend, Edge competed in the John Jacobs Invitational Tournament at the Harvard Club of New York. Though she lost in straight games in an early round, she proved that she is at the competitive level of some of the lower-ranked male amateurs in the country...