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This deal, which created Russia's third-largest oil firm, still has the leaders of both countries talking. But their tone has changed. When current U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown brought up TNK-BP with Dmitri Medvedev, Putin's successor, on the sidelines of the G-8 summit on July 7, the uneasy discussion was of a breakdown in relations between the British and Russian partners. Meanwhile, Dudley, the company's BP-appointed boss, is battling to keep his job. In Moscow that same day, AAR, the Russian consortium that controls 50% of TNK-BP, called for his dismissal, claiming...
...After earning a Ph.D. in history from Harvard in 1947, Fleming began to carve out his place in academia—teaching history at Brown for 11 years and history of science at Yale for a year before beginning 41 years of professorship at Harvard, retiring...
...find this theme irresistible. A modern convention is choreographed as if by Balanchine with scripts tight enough for Chekhov - and any brawl is more interesting than a coronation. Few know this better than the Clinton family, which had to deal with the bruised feelings of former California governor Jerry Brown's delegates at the 1992 convention that nominated Bill Clinton...
...says holidays are about getting brown? For kids, getting greener can be far more fun. After a day of snorkeling, kayaking and exploring tide pools, six young marine detectives gleefully examine their findings - plankton, sea tomatoes and some seagrass - under high-tech microscopes. These aquatic adventurers are members of Ambassadors of the Environment, the children's club at the eco-luxury Cape Sounio hotel on mainland Greece's Attica coast. Aimed at kids between 4 and 12, the club is part of a far-reaching educational scheme devised by marine biologist Jean-Michel Cousteau, son of ocean pioneer Jacques...
...Unlike the majority of her office-dwelling peers, N.W.'s phone calls are audible, and she stands outside her door to chat loudly with coworkers. After giving the first presentation of the summer to our intern class, she loudly gabbed to a friend about the eager (read: brown-nosing and naïve) young interns, realizing only moments later that I was sitting 10 feet away. When N.W. noticed me, she smiled disarmingly, introduced herself, shook my hand, and moved right on. She can be cloying when she wants but appears to have no problem being snippy. It is unclear...