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Less than a month afterPresident Clinton blocked a $1 billion deal between Conoco Oil and Iran, the Royal Dutch-Shell Group is treading where U.S. companies now cannot. The Anglo-Dutch company acknowledged its negotiations today, but would not confirm reports that it sought the same lucrative contract that the Houston-based Conoco was forced to give up. SaysTIME business writer John Greenwald: "This shows that when you try to hurt Iran by barring American companies from doing business with it, foreign companies are only too willing to rush...
...their sexual orientation. He insisted he has lived a celibate life, as Christian teaching requires of the unmarried, and declined to label himself as either heterosexual or homosexual. Ironically,TIME religion writer Richard Ostlingreports, the promotion is no gay lib step, but a sop to traditionalists: Hope is an "Anglo-Catholic" who opposed a historic bill that allows women priests...
...prong] was to photograph the elite and the other was to do the dregs of society from the jails," he says. "Hooton thought Anglo-Saxons were on the top of the tree and everyone else was arranged in a pecking order down below...
Mexican anthropologist Roger Bartra sees ``a revolution in the way the Mexican views the gringo.'' In the past, he says, ``the ruling classes emphasized our acute differences with the Anglo-Saxons in order to affirm our separate identity. But now hundreds of thousands of ordinary Mexicans have built bridges to the U.S. The frontier has become but a minor inconvenience. Perhaps it is utopian, but I look forward to its disappearance.'' From south of the border, at least, Mex-America beckons...
Egoyan, born in Cairo to Armenian parents, moved to Canada when he was three. They were the only Armenian family in an otherwise Anglo community, where the director says he "tried desperately to assimilate at all costs." With warmth characteristic throughout the afternoon, he recounts anecdotes from those times. "My sister's name is Eve," Egoyan says, "I had to go through my childhood with jokes about Atom and Eve.'" The director was attracted to drama from an early age, finding in it a way of creating, "a system where people could behave the way I wanted them to, since...