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...service conglomerate started raising prices this month. So have others. Oil-drilling ships are renting for $500,000 a day, double the charge of 18 months ago. "The price of oil is a transfer of wealth from the consumers to the producers," says Brian Gambill, senior analyst of Manning & Napier Advisors, an investment firm. "And the producers transfer their wealth to the oil-service companies because they don't have many of the technological capabilities that the service companies have...
...justify the means. The conditions for a just war, worked out over centuries to prevent premature and self-justifying wars, have been subverted by the U.S. It is time to withdraw the illegal army of occupation and devise a timetable for a multinational U.N. force of peacekeepers. Stephen Liddle Napier, New Zealand Perhaps we are looking in the wrong direction for the antidote to violence in the Sunni-dominated areas of Iraq. When Saddam Hussein was in power, he suppressed most resistance through sheer force and an aggressive, overwhelming response to any uprising. I'm sure that the Kurds...
...justify the means. The conditions for a just war, worked out over centuries to prevent premature and self-justifying wars, have been subverted by the U.S. It is time to withdraw the illegal army of occupation and devise a timetable for a multinational U.N. force of peacekeepers. Stephen Liddle Napier, New Zealand Perhaps we are looking in the wrong direction for the antidote to violence in the Sunni-dominated areas of Iraq. When Saddam Hussein was in power, he suppressed most resistance through sheer force and an aggressive, overwhelming response to any uprising. I'm sure that the Kurds...
...Boulevard. Disappointing in London, where it played as a tragedy, Andrew Lloyd Webber's latest has been reborn in Los Angeles as a gothic comedy. Glenn Close dispels her chilly screen persona as a manipulative and shamelessly camp-melodramatic bygone movie queen, a legend in her own mind. John Napier's parvenu palazzo set is the grandest and wittiest of the British megamusical...
It’s been a busy afternoon for Eskander, but not an unusual one. “I feel like her free time is spent traveling from place to place,” says blockmate Melanie D. Napier ’05. “She’s found many different niches in things that she really likes doing...