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...Ezeer Omar remembers that when he was 10, a German visitor told his grandfather that the oil in the hills "was like gold, that it would someday create wealth for us." The locals were unimpressed. "All we knew was that the sheep and cows kept getting stuck in the stuff," Omar says. So far the Norwegians' political gamble seems to have paid off. Last October Iraqis ratified a constitution giving each region the right to cut oil deals - the most bitterly fought-over item during months of wrangling - while allowing Baghdad to divide the revenues equitably between regions. Kurds will...
...theme-park attraction. Send a text message to the number posted, and seconds later your phone buzzes with an sms from Disney asking whether you want further promotions. For now, the advertiser knows only your number. Before too long, though, it could know your name too. Pretty cool stuff - and maybe just a little scary...
...JEANIE BOULET Gloria Reuben is Condoleezza Rice in Stuff Happens, a play about the Iraq war. Reuben once sang with Tina Turner, so Condi could bust out some Proud Mary if needed...
Christopher M. Gordon, Harvard’s top Allston official, likes “building stuff.”First, it was blocks. Then, it was runways and terminals at Boston’s Logan Airport. Now, he’s been charged with the task of bringing Harvard’s dream campus into being. Gordon, 43, who reports directly to University President Lawrence H. Summers, was hired last September to head up the Allston Development Group, a new body in the administration that will push the designs of the new campus off paper and into the ground. After...
...them. "We're the first generation to grow up with an all-comedy TV channel - Comedy Central," says Grace Parra, 21, who is president of Columbia University's Fruit Paunch improv group. "We grew up watching Nickelodeon at Night. We saw kids doing comedy for kids. That kind of stuff sticks with you." Their sense of entitlement to humor was honed further by shows like The Simpsons, South Park and the improv series Who's Line Is It Anyway? as well as by edgy comics like Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock...