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...industry executives describe the Yukos crackdown as an isolated event--a Russian oligarch incurred the wrath of the Kremlin because he got too big for his britches--not a concerted attack on the oil sector as a whole. Few top executives will talk about Yukos publicly, and most oil companies won't comment on their Russian investment strategies. But John Browne, BP's chairman, has defended his company's deal. "At present, I would say--and I believe this will continue--that there has been no effect" on BP's Russian venture from Yukos, he said earlier this year. That...
...does all this help out the poor people here, suffering the wrath of gloating red-staters? Well, it provides a retort. I am perfectly content to stop complaining about the election results, but it will come at a price. If I forego my right to whine about this poor excuse of a president, then Republicans alike shall have to stop whining about the fact that the rest of the world is anti-American...
...major counts. The first is that they believe our administration has been improving what Israelis call “The Situation.” Second, they think the “War on Terror” will take down an alleged common source of anti-Israel and anti-American wrath. Third, they are comforted by the apparent philo-Semitism of Bush’s evangelical Christian belief system...
...Schulz, leader of the Socialist Group, the body's second largest. Will it come to that? This week Barroso meets with party presidents at the European Parliament to discuss the impasse. No solution is perfect, but if Barroso tries to stand firm he risks a painful lesson in parliamentary wrath...
...Labor-reform efforts, Sari says, will probably be met by strikes and protests?the kind of civil unrest Yudhoyono would like to avoid. The potential wrath of the unions was on display Sept. 21 outside the High Court in central Jakarta. Hundreds of workers laid off last year from aircraft maker PT Dirgantara Indonesia raged in protest when the court rejected their claim that layoffs were conducted illegally. Nandang Rusmana, a mechanic who worked at Dirgantara for 20 years, is still unemployed more than a year after he lost his job and is borrowing money from his family to keep...