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...going to veer off on a completely irrelevant and lengthy aside on Pittsburgh and its position in the BCS. Anyone who said that it’s a travesty or a shame or so on that the Panthers are going to a BCS bowl game by winning the Big East has absolutely no clue what he or she is talking about. The only reason the BCS was created was to make sure that the conference champions, if they finished number one or number two in the country, would be free to play each other, rather than being locked into traditional...
...he’s not afraid to veer from the literary, either, as anyone in First Parish Church learned on Monday. There to promote his new book—Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?—Bloom also waxed on a number of topics, including religion and “our current American political debacle...
...neighbor is Bai Ling (Zhang Ziyi), a dance-hall hostess and prostitute. Her arguments with Chow over his lady guests veer into flirtation, and soon she too is making his bedsprings squeak. Bai Ling makes one rash transaction: she gives her heart to Chow, who wants her only as a playmate. The one sedate lady in the hotel is its owner's older daughter Jingwen (Faye Wong), pining over a broken affair with a Japanese man (Takuya Kimura). She encourages Chow, a journalist who writes erotic books on the side, to switch to science fiction. Soon she is helping...
Hardly. Just six days after Van der Veer took the helm, internal memos leaked to the press suggested that other top Shell executives still in office, including Van der Veer, may have known about the reserves problem as early as two years ago. Van der Veer vigorously denied the charges but failed to calm the jangled nerves of Shell's institutional investors. And so the company was forced to ask itself an unpleasant question: How many times can you fire your CEO in a year...
...gave what it hopes is the definitive answer: Just once. It said the probe had uncovered "disturbing deficiencies" in company practices, and announced the replacement of chief financial officer Judith Boynton. And for the third time this year, the company reduced the figure for its oil reserves. Van der Veer was spared. "We have complete and unreserved confidence in [his] leadership," the board said, although the internal inquiry handed further ammunition to a swarm of U.S. lawyers who have filed class actions against the firm. Shell said the company is accelerating its review of management practices but made it clear...