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...weekend brought further reminders of the bloody rifts that still crisscross the country. On Saturday, the top official in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq voiced anger over what he described as provocative troop movements by the central government around Kirkuk, the disputed oil-rich city. The Associated Press reported that the Kurdish prime minister, Nechirvan Barzani, denounced a move by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to deploy Iraqi soldiers ahead of the provincial balloting on the outskirts of Kirkuk, which both the Iraqi central government and Kurdistan regional authorities claim. The Iraqi government denied the accusation...
...ConocoPhillips (COP) is another company that is firing 4% of its staff. Oil prices are down, but the company is hardly likely to have staffed up for $140 crude. Although revenue at the company fell in in the fourth quarter, for the year COP sales increased to $281 billion from $187 billion in 2007. Profits for 2008 were more than $16 billion...
...Trinidad, nervous Venezuelan farmers began crossing the criollo with a lesser but more resilient bean by about 1825. As a result, the criollo was all but lost. It didn't help that Venezuela began to focus on more lucrative resources such as coffee and, in the early 20th century, oil. Today, "for every sack of cacao, 10 million bbl. of oil are produced" in Venezuela, Rosenberg notes. "In an oil economy, cacao is simply not that competitive...
...inspired from a list of like, 200 phrases. Then for the final painting we were supposed to loosely combine them into one big painting, somehow synthesize them. Conceptually it’s incredibly difficult to go from something so small to something so large...I had never worked with oil before this painting—the other paintings were in acrylic. Acrylic is cool, but oil is much more seductive. You get to sit there and play with it...I’m dealing with some pretty loaded imagery. One of the first things our professor said in the final...
...display, however, did not even know they had been chosen to participate. The art gave a broad sampling of what goes on in the world of VES—often secluded from more traditional concentrations—with pieces in a range of media, including sculpture, photography, oil paintings, silk screening, music, and video. The exhibit as a whole provides visitors with a new sort of intellectual engagement distinct from lectures and paper writing, asking students to think beyond their concentration or what they’ve come to regard as the norm at Harvard.Upon opening the heavy door...