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...first test of StatoilHydro's newfound unity is playing out in Russia. The company is in talks with Gazprom, Russia's state-owned energy company, about securing a role in developing Shtokman, a vast gas field in the Barents Sea. French rival Total earlier this year secured a partnership role through a share in a specially created company that'll own the project's infrastructure; the remaining 24% stake in that company is still up for grabs...
...pairing, not least because Roberts comes off as upbeat as a roomful of Rotarians, while Johnson, despite his vast accomplishments--including singlehandedly compiling the first comprehensive dictionary of the English language--was haunted by the inevitability of disappointment. The poem, "The Vanity of Human Wishes," is a devastating reflection on remorseless fate. "Life protracted is protracted Woe," the poet says...
...better known for making symbolic mountains out of real-life molehills. Roberts' first written dissent, published six months after he joined the court, seemed to accuse the majority of making the world safe for wife beaters. The case at hand dealt with a fillip in the vast edifice of Fourth Amendment law governing police searches. To wit: What if a husband and wife are together at their home and the wife invites the police in to search for her husband's drug paraphernalia but the husband says no? Is the consent of just one spouse sufficient? Previous courts had handled...
...majority--a vast majority--have voted for me, and therefore that result is the result...
...high fixed costs and uncertain and delayed revenues (particularly arts groups and publications) rely heavily on the UC to provide cash before an event takes place. Without such funding, students must rely on large amounts of their own liquid cash to front costs for which reimbursement is uncertain. The vast majority of student groups cannot afford to do so and will likely have to scale back their activities dramatically. That the College and the UC would let the stakes run so high as to threaten the livelihood of student groups demonstrates a clear irresponsibility toward the students that both...