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...Veteran green campaigners have been surprised by the speed with which banks have embraced change. "I think that many activists may have assumed that bankers were priests of the Church of Greed," says Steve Kretzmann, director of Oil Change, a Washington group that specializes in tracking project finance. "But many bank representatives have a sophisticated and advanced sense of the environmental, social and reputational risks...
...friends abroad have turned cold, too. The U.S. and Italy failed to reach a common conclusion following a joint investigation into a March 4 friendly fire incident in Baghdad, in which U.S. forces killed Italian intelligence agent Nicola Calipari. Discrepancies in the reconstruction of the shooting - including the speed of the car in which Calipari traveled and disputes over whether U.S. troops used warning signals - meant the U.S. military would not assume responsibility for the death of Calipari, a man hailed as a national hero for saving journalist Giuliana Sgrena, who'd been held hostage for a month in Iraq...
...remember that I forced my mom to take me so many times that she eventually began to sleep through it. Sometimes I would poke her before one of the more exhilarating moments--Han Solo killing the bounty hunter Greedo; Han making the jump to light speed in his jalopy, the Millennium Falcon; Han doing just about anything--and her eyes would momentarily flutter. I was so astonished she could sleep through the movie that I was worried something might be seriously wrong with her. But it also felt vertiginous, even perilous, to have this world to myself...
...Number of seconds that the train was running late when it crashed. Excessive speed is being blamed...
...Bashelor is one of the fastest players in college baseball, not just the Ivy League,” Walsh said. “He’s a huge threat on the basepaths. I think it’ll be a key to see if the team or individual speed will...