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Once CNOOC had bid $18.5 billion for Unocal, topping Chevron's offer, the action quickly shifted to Washington. There, egged on by Chevron's lobbyists, Congress raised a series of objections to the deal, particularly noting supposed security risks for the U.S. in a CNOOC-Unocal marriage. Most energy experts...
For all her personal emollience, Rice's most outstanding asset remains her relationship with Bush. In private meetings, says an Israeli official, "it takes only about five minutes to see how close Rice is to the President." For months after Bush gave Rice her new job, he mocked her relentlessly...
That sentence is the creation of a man named Donald Cammell, who, possibly to his regret, agreed to co-write with Brando a screen treatment, and then a novel, called Fan-Tan, which is about to be published in the latter form (Knopf; 272 pages) a bit more than a...
Harper’s resignation took much of the Harvard community by surprise, but his friends and colleagues said the decision fit squarely with their impressions of the man—whom nearly all of them call “principled.”
Had I taken this precaution, though, I would have regretted it a few shots later, as the erratic zooms, flips, wobbles, and generally nauseating angles would have caused me to regurgitate my breakfast. In a shallow movie that provokes only two questions—“What??...