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...political climate necessarily conducive to Big Oil setting up shop in Iraq. The country's parliament has thus far refused to ratify the government's national oil law - drafted under the strong influence of U.S. officials - which would allow international oil companies to acquire an ownership stake in the mammoth reserves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Reasons Behind Big Oil Declining Iraq's Riches | 7/2/2009 | See Source »

...Dawn of the Dinosaurs, is the very definition of "anything," although in this case, since the movie is being released in 3-D, it's a more expensive anything. It is the third in a series of stories revolving around a mammoth named Manny (Ray Romano) and his friends Diego the saber-toothed cat (Denis Leary) and Sid (John Leguizamo). Sid is a sloth, although a parent undereducated in the Ice Age franchise could be forgiven for spending the first half-hour of the movie mystified as to what this ugly thing is supposed to be. In a sitcom, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: Frozen Stereotypes | 6/30/2009 | See Source »

...when they nurtured a human baby whose mother had deposited the infant at their feet and then expired, doubtless reassured that her child was in good hooves/paws/claws. In 2006, they coped with global warming in Ice Age: The Meltdown and Manny had the good fortune to meet his true mammoth love, Ellie (Queen Latifah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: Frozen Stereotypes | 6/30/2009 | See Source »

...also unhappy about the impending arrival of the baby mammoth, but he copes with his insecurities by "adopting" three eggs he finds in an ice cave. They hatch and are revealed to each be a T. rex, whose mother soon finds and retrieves them in a neat mouthful, which includes Sid. The sloth's absence hardly seems like reason to take on the dinosaurs. Their possum friends sum it up nicely with this exchange: "I don't even like Sid." "Who does? He's an idiot." Nonetheless, they all go after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: Frozen Stereotypes | 6/30/2009 | See Source »

...down strategy background that I was looking for and it layered very well on the asset class specific experience I had at HMC.”THE BEGINNING OF THE STORMWhile her sojourn at Wellesley prepared her to take the helm of Harvard’s mammoth endowment, the company she returned to was dramatically different from the one she had left years earlier. In 2005, HMC’s legendary CEO Jack R. Meyer left the company with 30 other employees in tow to start his own hedge fund after enduring heated criticism for what some saw as excessive...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Despite Tough Year, New HMC Chief Remains Optimistic | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

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