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...seventh-largest oil company is now co-owned by YukosSibneft and TNK-BP, a Russian-British holding company. But with Sibneft slowly unwinding its merger with the embattled Yukos, Sechin-led Rosneft may be in the best position to buy Sibneft's stake in Slavneft. "If Sechin can pull it off, and if he sorts it out with BP," Delyagin says, "it will spell a decisive victory for Putin. The key point is taking oil under informal but tight Kremlin control, rather than launching a formally state-owned concern," which would scare off foreign investors. The new board chairman...
...Harvard has a unique opportunity to pull together the multiple disciplines needed to address development issues that are faced both within the U.S. and internationally,” Rosenzweig said in a statement Tuesday. “I look forward to enhancing the role of international development in the Kennedy School and the University...
...paid off. After reading the brochure, Gabe ran into Jeff at an event for MoveOn.org. Gabe signed up to help the campaign and wound up helping us reproduce 10,000 copies of our campaign documentary—a feat we probably wouldn’t have been able to pull off without his help...
Those who prefer to see campaigns in terms of political labels can invent an easy explanation for Jeff’s victory. Jeff ran as a progressive. That cost him the election by weakening his appeal in conservative Jefferson County, but it allowed him to pull off a win in the city. Carnahan, who played to the middle, couldn’t win the liberals or the conservatives, but, by being everybody’s second choice, he was able to claim the overall victory. This explanation makes some sense, but on closer examination, it has some gaping holes...
...information about the image it is sensing. Another factor affecting quality is the brains of your camera: it needs to have enough processing power to turn raw data into a beautiful picture. The quality of the lens is also important to ensure that your picture is focused and to pull in enough light to get a good exposure. "If you have a bad lens, the number of megapixels doesn't mean anything," says Atsushi Tashiro, a product-development manager for Fujifilm. How do you find the camera that's right for you? Read independent reviews on sites like cnet.com, dpreview.com...