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...Environment, which details the steps the company is taking to clean up environmental damage, train local employees in the Delta, build schools and health centers for local communities, and end the wasteful and destructive "flaring" of gas, as Nigeria's government requires it to do by 2008. But a letter in the report from Shell's local managing director Basil Omiyi conceded that the people of the Niger Delta "see few of the benefits" from oil. Nigeria's federal government has been promising to help the Delta for decades. But government bodies have come and gone with little progress...
...This morning, I get to work and on my desk is an 18-page letter from the President of Iran. Here's something cute: he dots his i's with little mushroom clouds." -- David Letterman...
...loaded assault rifles and a .45-cal. semiautomatic handgun, plus $5,800 in the house. Later that day, as he was paraded in shackles out of central lockup, Harris told reporters, "I ain't have nothing to do with no murders. Nothing." He did not respond to a letter sent to the jail by TIME, and his attorney was unable to reach him for comment...
Since the launch of the search in March, undergraduates and graduates have bemoaned the exclusion of students from the committee. Last month, the Harvard Graduate Council—which includes representatives from each of the University’s graduate and professional schools—released a letter calling on the University to add a seat for a graduate student to the search committee. The letter resulted in an April 14 meeting between University administrators and leaders from the Graduate Council, but no change has ensued and both the University and the council have declined to comment on the meeting...
...with the attempt to lift the Tigua casino ban, the effort to get explicit Congressional action on Abramoff's behalf failed. But as far as Safavian is concerned the damage was done. Four days later he wrote a letter to an ethics officer at GSA asking permission to go on the Scotland trip and said airfare would be paid for by a "lobbyist" who "has no business before GSA." The Justice department cited this as evidence of obstruction and making false statements on Safavian's part when it indicted him last year. Safavian goes on trial May 22. Safavian...