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...biggest conference in the industry's calendar, are feeling besieged by the relentless drumbeat of public outrage. Perhaps they have been worn down by their ongoing efforts to blame each other for spiraling prices. Or maybe they just think it in poor taste to gloat about their record profits. But even Monday's news that Iraq would open six of its oil fields to international contracts - news that came just hours after Royal Dutch Shell president Jeroen van der Veer announced to the congress that such a deal was "weeks, not months" away - failed to lighten the mood...
Almost all British universities now staff an alumni office responsible for finding former students and hitting them up for cash. As a result, the slice of British universities' income derived from endowments and investments hit a record of just under $800 million in the 12 months to August last year, 13% more than in the previous year. And since private donations take the strain off the public purse, the government is keen to promote further giving: in a $400 million scheme outlined in April, it has pledged to match such donations to universities for the three years starting next month...
...know how you can consider a Senator with the most liberal voting record in the Senate, running in the primaries with the most liberal voting blocs in the country, an insurgent. That is illogical and just gilding the lily. Your near orgasmic joy at Obama is quite unseemly. Tim Schubert, GLENVIEW...
...idea Clark was trying to communicate is that John McCain's honorable military service should be divorced and analyzed separately from his foreign policy record. Why? Because the first is unassailable, while the other is eminently flawed, says Ted Galen Carpenter, vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the libertarian Cato Institute. McCain's war record "simply shows he was a very brave man. But it shows neither wisdom nor judgment," says Carpenter. "And when it comes to foreign affairs, it's irrelevant...
...takes a while for the Fraternity to transform Wesley from dweeb to demi-deity. For the first third of the movie, he clings to his wimpiness, threatening to break the All-time Whining record held by the Justin Long character in Live Free and Die Hard. Moviegoers may start to wonder if McAvoy has imported to Wanted the softness of his roles in the more elevated Brit films Atonement, The Last King of Scotland and Becoming Jane. But he eventually gets the hang of movie heroism. Like Tobey Maguire, plucked from indie films to play Spider-Man, McAvoy...