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...drive a Chevy,” John R. Stilgoe proclaims. “It makes me sound like a common man.” The famously quirky visual and environmental studies professor says his black ’96 Suburban helps him blend into rural America on his annual summer field trips into the heartland...
...UBS’s privileged position gave it unique leverage over PetroChina, and a responsibility to exercise sound ethical judgment. Had UBS declined to underwrite PetroChina, PetroChina’s success on the Shanghai stock exchange would have hardly been guaranteed. Without the support of a western firm, PetroChina would have had to rely upon a Chinese investment bank, which would not have been able to provide the same level of financial expertise or resources...
...chavistas rightly argue that the distribution of capitalism's fruits has been grossly unequal in Latin America - which is a large reason why leftists like Chávez have been swept into power in recent years. But the region needs that investment nonetheless - and even leftists like Zapatero sound impatient with the region's mediocre performance...
...best film. Few directors wield the imagination or the courage to invest in the power of silence the way the Coens have in “No Country.” One of its most noticeable features is what lacks: a soundtrack. Virtually free of artificial sound, viewers experience the barren vistas of south Texas as McCarthy intended—an antediluvian void where angels exist, but far more devils can be found. In the midst of the total quiet, tension swells, revelations spread, and the great, monolithic equilibrium of chance reigns free. Set in 1980, the plot centers around...
...regrettable because it is an arbitrary cap that replaces a standard accounting-audit-based system of determining the actual overhead it costs to produce the research that we do,” Casey said yesterday. “Establishing a uniform cap is not a policy based on sound reasoning...