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...York Times that Lay offered to support Hebert's continuing in that role if Hebert would take a friendlier view toward energy deregulation. Hebert declined, and the Bush Administration replaced him. Lay and other Enron officials met six times with officials led by Vice President Dick Cheney (a former oilman) to craft a new energy policy. That policy, not surprisingly, was friendly to Enron and other energy companies...
...Solomon. By then, the site had long since been abandoned. The temple itself had ceased to be used sometime in the 6th century A.D., and the expanding desert had covered much of the complex. Sheba searchers returned to the region sporadically, most recently in the 1950s, when American oilman and explorer Wendell Phillips led an expedition that was driven out by political upheavals in Yemen...
...Solomon. By then, the site had long since been abandoned. The temple itself had ceased to be used sometime in the 6th century A.D., and the expanding desert had covered much of the complex. Sheba searchers returned to the region sporadically, most recently in the 1950s, when American oilman and explorer Wendell Phillips led an expedition that was driven out by political upheavals in Yemen...
...Imagine you are one of these people, an oilman from Texas maybe, reared on down-home cooking and wholesome notions of right and wrong. Suppose further you have heard that Bukit Indah's tranquility has been built on Aceh's ashes. You have been told the Indonesian troops whom ExxonMobil funds to protect you and your family?soldiers who salute you in the mornings?spend their nights burning villages, looting and killing at random. Activists are claiming that these troops have used your company's equipment to dig mass graves and are turning your company's warehouses into torture chambers...
...reaction revealed a trait Europeans have long considered a quintessentially American attribute: political naiveté. It seems pretty obvious now that a Texas oilman with a proven aversion to antipollution regulation and a firm grounding in the don't-tread-on-me ideology of Western Republicans would reject a complicated agreement like the one forged in Kyoto, Japan in 1997. A few weeks ago, Bush clearly indicated his opposition to the central tenet of that agreement -curbing global warming by cutting emissions of carbon dioxide -in a letter to several Republican Senators. In it, he abandoned a campaign pledge...