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...could well make up for in expertise. Many onshore reserves, which are relatively easy to exploit, are being depleted. So Big Oil is being forced offshore into increasingly complex projects, often at great depths and in harsh conditions. "Each barrel of oil produced tomorrow contains a higher degree of R&D than a barrel produced yesterday," Reiten, a former Norwegian Minister for Petroleum and Energy, told TIME a couple of days before his resignation. With StatoilHydro's decades of experience operating in the tricky terrain and climate off Norway's coast, the company could become the industry specialist at tackling...
...fighter against extremists and radicals"--and by swift reassurances from Administration officials that there would be no slowing in the flow of American aid to the Pakistani military. Stronger opprobrium and sanctions are out of the question because the Administration believes there are no alternatives to the dictator. Paul R. Pillar, a former CIA counterterrorism official and now a visiting professor of security studies at Georgetown University, says, "Musharraf is really the only horse in the race...
Three of the Harvard alums that created the popular crib-summary site SparkNotes.com have their sights set on a new web venture: capturing the sparks of romance. Sam A. Yagan ’99, Christopher R. Coyne ’99, and Maxwell N. Krohn ’99 have released CrazyBlindDate.com, a Web site designed to add spice to the online dating community by pairing users up on blind dates. “Sometimes you just want to go out immediately, with reckless abandon,” the team says on the site. Also behind the creation...
...Fortunately, we peons have our cunning UC advocates to defend our bureaucratic birthright. “The Faculty has placed in [UC-appointed committee members] the responsibility for recommending to it policies related to student life and house life, respectively,” declared SAC Chair Michael R. Ragalie ’09 in an e-mail to the UC earlier this week. “Not having voting members and not taking votes masks that responsibility by incentivizing individuals to abscond from their duties in the interest of allowing the ‘consensus’ to move forward...
...Daniel R. Coquillette, the Kissel Visiting Professor of Law, said he believes the nomination is not political...