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...shareholders in the likes of BP and Shell. But results like these can rankle consumers caught up in a cooling economy as gas prices at the pump steadily rise. Little wonder that results like these aren't trumpeted these days, but rather carefully explained. Record profit announcements from major energy firms are nothing new; those inflated oil prices have triggered a string of them in recent months. But the slowdown currently underway in the U.K., for instance, "puts a bigger onus on these companies to explain lucidly what exactly that means," says Simon Webley, research director at the Institute...
Miller came to Harvard for theater. More precisely, he came to Harvard because they had no theater major and, he presumed, less theater politics as a result. After witnessing an alum’s films about Africa at his high school, Miller arrived with an aim to pursue...
...depth does make a major difference...
...throw against McCain? Ironically, there is almost no complaint about the Republican process and its “winner take all” primary system. That system produces the same results Democratic superdelegates will ultimately provide: a conclusion and a nominee.Yet, while there shouldn’t be a major overhaul to the way the system works now, here are some questions both parties ought to be asking themselves about how primaries and caucuses are administered. Should caucuses and primaries be open to independent and cross-over voters, or just to registered members of the party? Currently, different states have...
Democrats are fed up. They’ve now been given several manufactured, make-or-break Tuesdays, and yet the primary churns on. Now things better turn more exciting, or we’ll switch to the ballgame.This ennui must stem from the penny-ante poker that the major news outlets have been playing for months on end. If this race is as revolutionary and unpredictable as we keep being told it is, why leave its coverage to the lumpy, petit-bourgeois benchwarmers puttering around this or that Washington bureau? Only the master conjurers holed up in Hollywood studios...