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...probably the wrong time to try to make a buck on soaring energy prices. Sure, Katrina has pushed oil prices-and gasoline prices at the pump-higher than you might have figured. And that spells windfall profits for energy companies, especially big oil firms like ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips. But these stocks have been surging for more than a year. Wall Street has priced in oil at $65 or so a barrel. For the stocks to be a buy now you have to expect oil to keep going higher. Yet as the waters recede around New Orleans and oil firms...
Three freshmen—Roberta Steele, Megan Watson, and Andrew Flynn—are expected to pump new blood into the program...
...Deadly Policy The killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian man the London police mistakenly suspected to be a terrorist and shot, raises important questions [Aug. 29]. Why did British police institute a shoot-to-kill policy for suspected suicide bombers when disabling them would be enough? Why pump eight bullets into a suspect when one or two would have been enough? What went on inside the minds of the police who killed Menezes? The public is entitled to be informed of all the details of this event. Axel Beselin Malveira da Serra, Portugal Beyond Symbols of Support...
...levee breach has been fixed. The people have been evacuated. Army Corps of Engineers magicians will pump the city dry, and the slow (but quicker than we think) job of rebuilding will begin. Then there will be no 24-hour news coverage. The spin doctors' narrative will create a wall of illusion thicker than the new levees. The job of turning our national disaster into sound-bite-size commercials with somber string music will be left to TV. The story will be sanitized as our nation's politicians congratulate themselves on a job well done. Americans of all stripes will...
...Pump Station #6 (The city's largest...