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...field. That's about 4% of China's current total demand for crude, secured on very favorable terms. Over the 20-year life of the deal, Beijing will effectively be paying about $20 per barrel. Crude prices, which last summer peaked at more than $140 per barrel, now sit just above...
...certainly tough to sit back and watch them have a bad year and know you can do nothing about it,” Perlman says...
...crown by sweeping Penn, 4-0 and 4-2, in the championship series. Ever since then, the Crimson seven has set high expectations for themselves. The following year, they were back in the championship game, but this time around, Harvard fell to Princeton. This didn’t sit quite well with the Schmen, who are seeking redemption this year. “I couldn’t be hungrier for [the title],” Murphy says. “Coming into my freshman season, we won the championship, and that was the best feeling in the world. Last...
...Powell hadn't spent time working in intelligence. The first lesson any good intelligence officer will learn in the field is that chatter is a trap easily fallen into. When I was in the Middle East I'd sit down every so often with a commercially available Bearcat scanner and listen to random conversations. It was mostly people griping about the shortage of bread or the price of gasoline. I improved my Arabic but little more. Once, however, something very intriguing came up on the air: the movement of tanks out of barracks. I was elated, jumping to the conclusion...
...collection of chatter? The NSA already has the legal authority to listen to chatter overseas - communications among foreigners. But what do you do when an American pops up calling a suspect telephone number or trying to e-mail al-Qaeda to volunteer his services? How long can the NSA sit on a line, figuring out whether it is of real interest, before applying for a warrant? I'll leave that one up to the constitutional lawyers, but I'll be eagerly listening for their answer...