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...much, it's because the Bush Administration is up against a prevailing world view that the burden of proof is on the U.S. to show that it won't exploit Iraq's underground riches. Hours after the invasion began, U.S. forces had seized two offshore terminals that can transfer 2 million bbl. daily to tankers. They secured the southern Rumaila oil field so swiftly that Saddam Hussein's retreating troops managed to set only nine wells ablaze, compared with 650 Kuwaiti wells during Gulf War I, and U.S. airborne troops took the northern oil fields at Kirkuk largely intact...
...getting drunk and canoodling with coeds. There's Jim Harrick, ex-basketball coach of the University of Georgia, who forgot the one about not permitting athletes to receive bogus class credits. There's Jan van Breda Kolff, ex-basketball coach of St. Bonaventure University, who forgot to require a transfer student to have a two-year degree, not a certificate in welding...
...tentative new deal, which Harvard lawyers and state transportation authorities will review over the next few days, would transfer easements currently held by CSX, a private freight carrier, to the MBTA—giving the transportation agency rights to the land if CSX abandons the easements they currently hold on the parcel...
...Northwestern-like plan would cost Harvard about $2 million over four years without improving existing infrastructure. That cost has to be weighed against that of a full re-wiring, which would improve data transfer speeds across the board...
...state government facing a huge budget crisis, and the MBTA contemplating another fare hike, it is sheer folly to throw away $33 million to pay for land that the transportation secretary ultimately controls. Meanwhile, the MBTA is facing tougher budgets in the recession. It would be folly to simply transfer money from one poor state agency to another. The MBTA should save its cash, let the Mass Pike take Harvard’s private funds, and rely on the safeguards already in effect to keep the railyard in place—thereby preserving commuter rail lines that are dependent...