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...that time, PetroChina’s chairman Ma Fucai said that a “firewall” between PetroChina and its parent company would ensure that none of the IPO revenues would go toward funding ventures in Sudan...
...parent company retained a 90 percent stake in PetroChina even after the IPO, the Associated Press reported...
Canada’s Talisman Energy came under heavy fire from activists two years ago for its stake in the Greater Nile Oil Project—the same joint venture with the Sudanese government that PetroChina’s parent company has undertaken...
...police officers on the streets. In 1995, Kerry threw up legislative roadblocks to Republican attempts to undo much of the Clean Air Act. In 2000, Kerry co-wrote the legislation in a spending bill that provided funding for early childhood after-school programs, health care and parent education. In 2002, Kerry was one of the leading opponents against Bush’s plan to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The list goes on. If Kerry’s Senate record is liberal, then he has given liberal politics a better name...
...difficult finding a young girl who was comfortable playing somebody so unattractive." Their search ended with Marilou Berry, 21; as the real-life daughter of another actress-writer-director, Josiane Balasko, Berry knows what it's like to be pushed aside by people trying to get to her famous parent. And Jaoui drew from her own memories as a chubby child of successful parents to add to Lolita's adolescent angst. "The film is quite autobiographical," she says. "When I was small, I wanted to be beautiful. My mother was a shrink and my father was an intellectual who could...