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...outside Norway, the competition is fierce. As the world's demand for energy swells, petroleum-pumping countries like Russia and Venezuela "are asserting a higher degree of national control over [oil and gas] developments and leaving less room for non-national companies to participate," says Peter Mellbye, StatoilHydro's head of international exploration and production. While key Middle Eastern nations have long held their domestic oil companies and development projects in a tight grip, a more protectionist stance among energy powers elsewhere has, Mellbye says, "fundamentally changed the picture...
...Politics has never been a gentle game. As far back as 1895, satirist Finley Peter Dunne's fictional saloonkeeper Martin Dooley observed that women, children and prohibitionists would do well to stay out of it, because "politics ain't beanbag." But surely, even Mr. Dooley could never have imagined a day would come when a mere seventh grader could be swift-boated...
...second half of the play consists entirely of Max and Horst (Peter C. Shields ’09) carrying cinderblock “rocks” back and forth from one side of the stage to the other with no apparent purpose...
ITHACA, N.Y.—For a brief period in the third quarter, it appeared that Harvard might be in for a fourth straight game decided by a touchdown or less. Cornell’s Peter Zell nailed a 38-yard field goal on the Big Red’s opening drive of the second half to pull to within four points of the Crimson at 19-15, a deficit that had been 19-0 with just 3:11 to play in the second quarter.Momentum would not stay with Cornell long, however, as Harvard responded with a 51-yard touchdown...
...round total of 151 (74-77), good for 33rd overall in the tournament. Freshman Louis Amira was only one stroke behind him with a two-day score of 152 (79-73), one shot better than sophomore Danny Mayer’s 153 (72-81). Junior John Christensen and sophomore Peter Singh also contributed for the Crimson, with scores of 155 (75-80) and 158 (85-73), respectively. Harvard placed fifth with a team score of 603 (300-303), just one stroke behind fourth-place finisher Dartmouth. Texas Christian won the tournament with a 573 (285-288), and all of their...