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...Thursday, oil-drillers Pride and Marine Drilling merged into the third largest off-shore drilling firm in the world. The new company has to be asking itself into which kind of environment is it entering? Supply-side energy policy won't run into much trouble with the pragmatist Democrats with oil-drenched Breaux at their head, or even the Gephardt crowd, because it's good for labor. But surely it'd rather have George W. Bush and Trent Lott setting the pace...
...spread before me, the worn marble steps littered with photographers--and then, nearly twenty-four hours later, traced an oddly familiar descent from the colonnade at the Acropolis, prose in hand, with the magnificent view of Athens (and of flocks of photographers) stretching from marble's edge to the shore...
HUMANITIES For his generosity to the Jersey Shore and adding to its "rich tradition of great rock...
...miseries. In architecture and design, a certain amount from Frank Lloyd Wright to Frank Gehry, little of whose best work was actually done in the state; and more from such European exiles as the two Viennese Modernist architects Richard Neutra and Rudolph Schindler, who took refuge on the Pacific shore and found themselves in the company of assorted shrinks, religious prophets, musicians and writers, from Aldous Huxley and Thomas Mann to Henry Miller and Nathanael West. A lot of photography, of course, especially ultrasharp f/64 pix of very grand mountains by Ansel Adams and fuzzy Pictorialist ones of American nudes...
...ransom and even, astonishingly, petrol. The bulk of the bribes received by convicted customs chief Zhao came from smuggling gasoline. The racket worked like this: a tanker anchors in international waters and waits for motor launches to gather round. An auction follows, and the buyers smuggle the fuel to shore in barrels to sell to the nearest state-run station, no import duty paid. "The whole of southern China is running on smuggled gas," says Zheng. "And half the time, the government is controlling...