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...pipeline from the Melut Basin of southern Sudan to a Red Sea tanker terminal, according to an article by Goodman in the Washington Post from December 2004. A report from Reuters in October 2004 said that Sinopec bought a six percent share of two oil blocks in the eastern Upper Nile region of Sudan.Yale, in explaining its decision to divest, said in a statement yesterday that the companies targeted by yesterday’s divestment move were given an opportunity to explain their actions in Sudan.Stanford’s divestment from Sudan-related firms also targeted a Russian-based...
...Business school admissions officers are increasingly concerned about the use of so-called ‘admissions consultants’ by applicants to increase their chances of being accepted to upper echelon MBA programs,” the editorial staff of the publication wrote in an e-mail to the student body announcing the poll...
...mountain at Sestriere Borgata, he brought the course to its knees, winning the downhill part of the combined. He threw himself out of the start house and quickly reached 126.48 kph-fastest on the day-at the first interval timing, slicing through the two tough turns in the upper part of the course. Nor did he make the mistake that had cost him a medal in the downhill, when he gave up too much speed in the lower section. Miller's time of 1:38.36 was .32 secs ahead of Didier Defago of France and more than two seconds...
...things didn't go my way. Obviously I was in position to win by a significant margin, even with poor skiing in the first run." That didn't happen either. Miller again came out with authority in his trademark "backseat" style, piling over the two bumps in the upper part of the Sestriere Colle slalom run. At the end of the run, Miller had a .97 second lead on Raich heading into the second run. In other words, he was winning by a mile. Raich, perhaps the best skier in the world right now, would need a miracle to catch...
...their stiff-upper-lip stoicism, the British go cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs over any native band that can gin up three chords and an attitude. The latest kings of England are the Arctic Monkeys, four lads who got guitars for Christmas in 2001, mastered them quickly, toured the country and handed out home-burned CDs of songs that were then uploaded to the unsigned-band portal MySpace.com Their following metastasized to the point that the band sold out the famed London Astoria last year on word of mouth. When a record-company bidding war ensued, the Arctic Monkeys signed with...