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...last week told oil companies to come up with structural plans (including new refining initiatives) to lower oil prices or risk a windfall tax. With oil at $63 per bbl. and oil-company profits at record highs, a new era of refinery construction seems imminent. Last week, serial entrepreneur Richard Branson floated the idea of building a refinery just to provide his Virgin Airways and other airlines with jet fuel. U.S. politicians have been putting pressure on domestic oil companies to build new facilities for some time, while China and India are already undertaking ambitious new construction. Trouble...
...memories and the forgetful, distracted modern mind. That means the obsessive Jonathan has a more important historical role to play than he perhaps imagines. It also means that this often vivid movie, though it doesn't quite attain its highest intentions, is well worth seeing. And thinking about. --By Richard Schickel...
...same. At one point the thoughtful Emily defends herself against the merely rational Dr. Sartorius. "I do not reduce life to its sentiments," she insists to him. "I enlarge life to its sentiments." Doctorow often does the same, and in this book he does it magnificently. --By Richard Lacayo...
...ground, the Administration and Congress have had to prove they are at least attempting to mind the store. To help win passage of the $51.8 billion relief bill, Congress allocated $15 million to the Department of Homeland Security to closely monitor the spending, a sum DHS inspector general Richard Skinner termed "a good start." His office, along with the White House Office of Management and Budget, is required to give Congress weekly briefings on how the money is being spent. The first such report spanned 10 spreadsheet-packed, rather puzzling pages--including a two-page glossary--breaking out spending into...
...Crimson offense, that’s a very good thing. When sophomore quarterbacks Richard Irvin or Liam O’Hagan drop back to pass, they’re likely to be gunning for Mazza, the team’s most prolific receiver last year...