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...annual awards banquet held at the Harvard Club of Boston on Monday, the Crimson announced that junior defensive end Erik Grimm will captain the 2005 Harvard football team. Grimm is a multi-year starter who has already proven himself as a leader on the defense...
...enrolled in trials. The idea of trials as bold experiments with mysterious drugs is wrong. Often there's no new agent involved. Oncologists have been treating all with the same eight drugs for more than 20 years; the improved cure rate among children results from new combinations and dosages proven in trials to work. Supple is part of a five-year trial involving infants and children under 17, in which most participants receive standard best treatment while those at greatest risk of relapse receive more aggressive treatment...
...stake in the firm. The two companies promptly announced a strategic alliance to develop oil reserves in the Russian Arctic and potentially work together in Iraq. For Jim Mulva, Conoco's president and chief executive, the deal amounted to a coup, giving Conoco access to 8 billion bbl. of proven oil reserves at relatively modest cost. Lukoil was delighted too because it is counting on the Americans to help it extract and market the oil more efficiently. But as Mulva and Lukoil president Vagit Alekperov toasted their accord with champagne, they were careful not to mention the one issue that...
...trying to get a foothold. All three recently signed preliminary agreements to work with state-controlled Gazprom, an oil-and-gas behemoth in which Germany power company E.On holds a 6% stake. There is widespread speculation in Moscow that Sibneft, an oil company controlled by billionaire Roman Abramovich with proven reserves of 4 billion bbl., could be in play. Sibneft was scheduled to merge with Yukos until Khodorkovsky's troubles erupted. Abramovich and Yukos jostled for power for weeks afterward, until the merger finally unraveled earlier this year, prompting speculation that Sibneft may be looking for a Western buyer...
...those moments are increasingly rare. "Part of it is all of us being past 40," says Mullen Jr. "But the truth is, it's better for Bono not to be here. He gets frustrated and feels like he can be doing more important things, which I think he's proven is true." When he returns, the band is actually eager to talk politics. "I really didn't like the idea of him appearing in a photograph with George Bush," says the Edge. "Larry didn't like seeing him with [Vladimir] Putin. But Bono felt that in the end, even though...