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...postelection turmoil escalated, it became clear that it was the story of the year and more: whoever was the survivor would be not only the next President but a symbol of a historic showdown that would be remembered and cited a century hence. So by early last week, without knowing whether Al Gore or George Bush would win, we'd decided that the victor would be Person of the Year...
...Petroleum Exporting Countries makes good on threats to rein in crude-oil supplies in 2001. The Clinton Administration's decision last September to release some 30 million bbl. of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) did little to cool the crude market, and since then Middle East turmoil and strong global demand have kept traders on edge. At the same time, global refining capacity is strained to the limit. "When you have a market this tight, it's vulnerable to disruption," warns Daniel Yergin, chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates. "It could be a political event. It might...
...early 1980s, Cambridge political leaders responded to turmoil in Central America by designating Cambridge a "sanctuary city," says Elena Letona, director of Latin American advocacy group Centro Presente...
Proof of Life is one of those old-fashioned crackerjack thrillers that shifts across a number of exotic locales, yet it is also a film hot-wired directly into contemporary culture. With global economics continually expanding, the threat to prominent Americans in regions of political turmoil is more acute than ever-thus negotiators with the steel-edged nerves needed to manipulate the most delicate of situations have become a critical necessity (not surprisingly, an extensive article on the subject served as the basis for the screenplay). In a sequence of terrifying simplicity, Bowman, who was commissioned to build...
...says she has no plans to return to Haiti, and she is even planning to bring her mother to Cambridge and she hopes someday that her siblings will join her. And while Randolph's story mirrors the hard-scrabble existence for Haitians in Cambridge, political turmoil at home ensures that this recent immigrant wave is here for the long haul...