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...wildcatter" Ray Cullen's efforts to convince a man named Judge R. E. Brooks to invest in drilling for crude in 1920: "That the judge couldn't find oil in a barrel didn't matter to Cullen; all that mattered was that Brooks and a dozen other leading Houston citizens had committed money to this drill site. Cullen politely suggested Judge Brooks pick the spot to break ground, and he did. When Cullen realized they had nothing to mark it, he walked to a mound of what Texans tastefully call "cow chips," pick up a few dry chunk, and piled...
...first-known living octuplets - is preoccupying fertility doctors across the country. The ASRM is caught up in the craziness too. "If this resulted from an IVF treatment, we can say that transferring eight embryos in an IVF cycle is well beyond our guidelines," the group's president, R. Dale McClure, said in a statement issued four days after Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Bellflower, a Los Angeles suburb, announced the babies' birth. "We have a process for looking into these kind of matters and taking appropriate action...
...Wong ’10. “While I do not question that most of my fellow representatives serve for the same reason as I, I do question the motives of a few,” he wrote. Current members of the UC, even incoming UC President Andrea R. Flores ’10, agreed with some of his concerns. Reflecting on James’ criticisms of the UC, Flores said some of those issues were the same reasons she almost didn’t run for the presidency. Flores confirmed seeing cases where representatives were...
...always going to speak his mind, which is why we have such a strong friendship." - Former Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich, after Steele jokingly likened the "R" denoting the Republican Party to a "scarlet letter" (CBS News, July...
Andersson and Thomas R. Compton ’09, vice president of the cast for the Hasty Pudding, will sit next to Zellweger in the convertible, while members of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals—dressed in drag—flank the car. The parade will end at New College Theater on Holyoke Street, where Andersson and Compton will roast Zellweger...