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...earnings of $600 million derive from its wells in Africa, Asia, the North Sea and Canada, as well as the Gulf of Mexico. That it has prospered as El Dorado struggled spurred Murphy to action, says chairman and CEO Claiborne Deming. "This not a booming metropolis by any stretch," Deming notes, alluding to the toll that lumber imports have taken on the area's timber economy and that job exports have squeezed from its manufacturing sector. In pledging $50 million over the next five years for the El Dorado Promise, the company not only can "give back" to the community...
...mystery. After we stand together for 20 minutes in the center of the sprawling sala, Seracini looks at me with a twinkle in his eye. "I know I haven't told you where it is yet," he says. He then indicates a 250-sq.-ft. area on the eastern stretch of the Vasari mural, behind which, he asserts, lies the masterpiece. Having looked at sketches and copies of Anghiari, I strain to tap into an inner X-ray to see through the mural to the Leonardo behind. The original, a Renaissance forebear of Pablo Picasso's Guernica, was described...
...that will be Harvard’s focus coming down the stretch of its Ivy season—filling the defensive gap left by the 7’0 Cusworth. The lane will now appear much more open for opposing squads without the Crimson’s career leader in shot-blocks manning the paint...
...sure to roll over. “I think we need to get ourselves back where we were before Christmas,” Stone said yesterday, “before we got banged up. To get back that chemistry and work ethic and get rolling here in the last stretch of the season.” No. 6 Harvard (15-4-2, 12-3-1 ECAC) ventures to upstate New York for the conference’s softest road trip, taking on last-place Union (4-20-0, 0-16-0) in Schenectady tonight and the Engineers...
This is the sixth article in a continuing series.Part 1: Provost Considered for Top PostPart 2: Will These Cowboy Boots March West?Part 3: Deft Historian May Be Harvard's FuturePart 4: 'Iowa Values' for Mass. Hall?Part 5: Harvard May Stretch for Etch...