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...Falling worldwide demand, especially in emerging markets, is the reason that the oil market made road kill of OPEC's production cut. Oil dropped yet again to $64 a barrel - its lowest level in more than a year. For months leaders of oil-rich countries have watched nervously as world oil prices have tumbled more than 50% from the all-time high in July of $147 a barrel...
...brighter in Westminster than in Washington. Even as they declared a truce over the financial meltdown, British pols were trading blows. "We meet at a time of national anxiety," Osborne told delegates at the Conservative party conference on Sept. 29. He asserted that his party was determined to make rich bankers pay for the mess they had helped to create. "Unlike New Labour we are not bedazzled by big money," he said...
...given Thursday night--the start of the weekend in Syria--Z Bar, the rooftop nightclub at the Omayad Hotel, is packed. An instant hit with Damascus' rich and restless when it opened last summer, Z Bar provides not only a place to dance on tables Beirut-style but also a commanding view of the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. "Top of Z Town" is its Pepé Le Pew--esque slogan, but everyone knows who's really on top in this town. From a hill above Z Bar, the glass façade of Bashar Assad's presidential palace looks...
...sahibs lighting their Sumatra buncuses. Cunchunees whirling and ticky-taw boys beating their tobblers...†And so it goes for an entire page. The jerks from one end of the linguistic spectrum to the other serve no one well, least of all the reader. There are rich possibilities within “Sea of Poppies†that never come to bloom. With such an ambitious reach, Ghosh’s novel ought to make the reader a part of its historical present. Excellence is within reach, but the fact that it is only makes this novel?...
...That all changed a few years ago when geologists estimated that between 5 billion bbl. and 10 billion bbl. of oil lie beneath the waters off Cuba's northwest coast. Suddenly it seemed as though the hemisphere's sole communist nation might finally end its desperate dependence on oil-rich allies like the former Soviet Union and Venezuela - and perhaps even escape its impoverished economic time warp altogether...