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...first to change. In Shell's case, the firm was shaken by two scandals in quick succession: the execution in 1995 of Nigerian poet Ken Saro-Wiwa, who vigorously contested Shell's oil operations in Nigeria, and the company's plans that same year to sink the Brent Spar oil rig in the North Sea. Both sparked huge international protests and boycott calls that led to a change of management and a complete revamp of Shell's ethical standards and operating behavior. Disaster is also behind Total's ethical epiphany. In December 1999, when the oil tanker Erika sank...
...Shirley V. Cardona ’06 began boxing January of last year, encouraged by a friend on the soccer team who was also interested in the sport. “I spar with the guys all the time,” she says. “A lot of the girls beat the guys...
...debate. It's in South Carolina, an early primary state which will be a crucial test of which can sell themselves to Southerners and African-Americans. (ABC is offering the broadcast to its affiliates and C-SPAN will play it repeatedly.) But how much nine people can spar during an hour and a half is questionable. At such an event in Houston, the 1988 Democratic field began to earn its reputation as the "Seven Dwarves." Recalls Bruce Reed, president of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council: "They quickly realized they all sounded alike - and they had 40 debates...
...freedom-fighter" father's death; and David (Christopher Plummer), the customs inspector who interrogates Raffi on his return to Toronto. The characters talk endlessly. "The opposite of denial is the tendency to talk too much," says Egoyan. In some of the film's key scenes Raffi and David verbally spar in a darkened room over the contents of Raffi's cans, labeled Exposed Film. Will shining a light inside be ruinous as well as revelatory? Their dialogue is interspersed with brutal images of murder and rape as depicted in the fictional film. In a scene set during the shooting...
Consumer groups and auto executives may spar over the mixed safety profile of SUVs, but there's less argument about the vehicles' environmental impact. It's simple math: SUVs are heavier than cars, so they take more gas to go the same distance. And burning more gas releases more garbage into the air. According to the liberal Union of Concerned Scientists, 2001-model SUVs, pickups and minivans emitted 2.4 times as much smog-forming nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons as cars and 1.4 times as much tailpipe carbon dioxide (a global-warming gas) as cars. The Natural Resources Defense Council says...