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...hoping to lure them into a stock listing in London and Moscow later this month that could raise as much as $11.7 billion, making the company worth up to $80 billion. It seems like a compelling story: Rosneft's oil reserves are vast, its costs are low by international standards, and the fact that it will remain majority-owned by the Russian state after the flotation will ensure it receives preferential treatment at home. And the company claims it's playing by Western rules; a veteran European banker has joined the board, and the firm uses U.S. accounting standards. Rosneft...
...head. Economists are developing new consumption-smoothing software that does the targeting for you. (Full disclosure: I've co-developed one such program, called ESPlanner.) The goal of the new software is to help you make the financial and life-cycle decisions that will generate your highest sustainable living standard. Targeting for a smooth spending path makes a lot more sense than scrimping now for a few years of luxury or living it up and then throwing yourself on the mercy of your kids and Social Security...
...planted along the road and did not give warning as the Marine convoy approached. That collusion makes them as guilty as the ones who planted the bomb. The Marine and Army grunts who deal with the complacent and devious citizens of Iraq are being held to an impossible standard. James H. Rehrig Nazareth, Pennsylvania...
...Gitmo, however, dead prisoners are something the U.S. military wishes devoutly to avoid. So force-feeding has been standard policy at the camp ever since hunger strikes began in early 2002. The facility's top physicians have also told TIME that prisoners who resist are subjected to especially harsh methods. In one case, according to medical records obtained by TIME, a 20-year old named Yusuf al-Shehri, jailed since he was 16, was regularly strapped into a specially designed feeding chair that immobilizes the body at the legs, arms, shoulders and head. Then a plastic tube that...
...Andrew Ferguson is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard...