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...recent energy conference in New York, the place was overflowing," says Charlie Ober, manager of the T. Rowe Price New Era natural-resources fund. He views the crush of interest as a sure sign that investors have pushed up energy stocks too far. He has been paring back. But Ober still views oil and gas as a good long-term bet (increasing demand for a finite resource). The stocks he is sticking with are oil-services firms, including Schlumberger, which has key relationships with foreign producers, and oil companies with accessible reserves, including French giant Total...
...close to the First Family, dined with the President in the White House two days after the attacks, the mood was collegial, not angry. In the Iraqi ramp-up and occupation, the Administration has rewarded its Saudi and Texas supporters with billions in rebuilding contracts. As Blaine Ober, president of an armored vehicle company, tells Moore: the Iraqi adventure is ?good for business, bad for the people...
...people of Iraq, Ober means. But, Moore argues, bad for Americans as well. As he sees it, 9/11 was a tragedy for America, a career move for Bush. The attacks allowed the President to push through Congress restrictive laws that would have been defeated in any climate but the ?war on terror? chill. ?Fahrenheit 9/11? shows some tragicomic effects of the Patriot Act: a man quizzed by the FBI for casually mentioning at his health club that he thought Bush was an ?asshole?; a benign peace group in Fresno, Cal., infiltrated by an undercover police agent...
...Carver, Jr., Garner Harrig Edward H. Ober, Ethel Whitford; Oscar M. Shaw Margaret Pickering...
...Vivian Vance and her husband, and our editor, Dann Cahn. We gathered around the 12-in. screen to watch the opening episode, "The Girls Want to Go to a Nightclub." We had seen the show at the filming, so there wasn't much laughter. But Vivian's husband Phil Ober, who hadn't been at the filming, was laughing so hard he almost fell out of his chair, which we hoped was a good omen...