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Like China, the Indians want Burma’s oil and gas and its co-operation in combating anti-Indian insurgencies in North-Eastern states. But most importantly, India is jittery at China’s influence over Burma, especially its “string of pearls” policy of establishing bases around the Indian Ocean, including one allegedly on the Burmese island of Great Coco. India has countered this with its own weapon and radar sales, and training for the junta’s military...
...president, say they're back to 3.2 m.b.d., but even OPEC says Venezuela's output is 2.4 m.b.d. PDVSA's exploration and production vice president, Luis Vierma, warned last July of an "operational emergency" because of a lack of drilling rigs. In recent years, there has been a troubling string of accidents; and oil corruption, the blight that Chvez vowed to eradicate, became an issue this year when Vierma was investigated--but not charged--for handing lucrative contracts to rig operators who had no experience...
...studied at Pakistan's premier art school, the National College of Arts (NCA) in Lahore, and that ul-Hassan has taught there. The only art school in the world to boast a miniature department where students learn the painstaking techniques that Mughal miniaturists employed, the college has produced a string of artists who are reinvigorating old forms with post-9/11 themes. Imran Qureshi, a professor of miniature at the NCA, has a solo show in Oxford's Modern Art museum, which includes his delicate rendering of a bearded mullah blowing bubbles. In 2003, Qureshi and five other NCA graduates...
...What really is satisfying about this one is that the essence of coaching is when things aren’t perfect, how you respond to it,” Murphy said. “We’re down 1-2, we lose our first-string quarterback, and pretty much everybody, predictably, forgot about us. And just one day at a time, one practice at a time, we said, ‘Our next practice is our best practice, our next game is our best game.’ And this is one of those teams that got better...
...nation in picks per game), and the other is the only defensive Preseason All-American in the entire league.It almost seems like a waste—all that talent in the secondary up against a group of receivers who’d be lucky to crack fourth or fifth-string if they wore Crimson. I’m not sure what the final numbers will be, but it’s a losing formula for Yale.Harvard quarterback Chris Pizzotti, on the other hand, has the most prolific touchdown-scoring receiver in team history at his disposal in the form...