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...political risk factor that has done most to propel oil prices to record highs over the past six months has been the prospect of war between the United States and Iran. It's not hard to see why: Iran is the fourth-largest supplier in an already tight world market, and its threat to respond to any attack by closing the Straits of Hormuz - the maritime bottleneck through which oil from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States must pass - could send oil markets into shock. But oil futures fell to just under $64 a barrel this week, from close...
...After getting out the bulk of the news, Jobs still had more coming, from the new micro-sized iPod shuffle to redesigned earbuds to NFL season highlights on iTunes. The theatrically minded CEO, usually tight-lipped about his next big thing, even teased at a product that will launch in January, code-named iTV. As eagerly anticipated as the movie-download store itself, the iTV looks like a Mac mini, and is intended to connect to your TV set and connect wirelessly to computers to retrieve video and audio content. Other products like this have been on the market...
...having good starts and good boat speeds, and they did all those things.” The first of the Metro Series races also took place this weekend at Boston University. Although Connecticut College coasted to a first place finish, the jockeying for positions second through six was very tight, with the Crimson coming in at third place by just five points. The A-division sophomore team of skipper Andrew Flynn and crew Lauren Brants took fourth, losing out on third place by a single point, while another pair of sophomores, skipper Jon Garrity and crew Kerry Anne Bradford, took...
...recalled its ambassador in Damascus after Syria, despite its denials, was implicated in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri in February 2005. Mobs are one thing, but terrorism tells the Syrian people something that no dictator wishes to show: that the regime does not have as tight a grip on the country as it would like its citizens to believe...
...membership of the new task force and its tight deadlines are signs that the committee’s efforts will result in action, not just discussion, Skocpol said...