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Most importantly, our strategy is working: The French oil company Total has announced that it intends to start drilling for oil in the Sudan. Fearing divestment, its executives met with the Sudan Divestment Task Force, creators of the targeted divestment plan. To ensure the support of its investors, Total informed the Task Force about their plans for implementing a human rights policy developed in conjunction with several local stakeholders in Sudan and the European Coalition on Oil in Sudan. As such, they are currently not targeted for divestment, and, providing they keep their promises, never will...
...Understanding what we're collectively afraid of as a society is a very difficult task. How can we trust survey responses to questions about what we perceive is our greatest weakness? Sure it might be easy to admit to common fears like public speaking or spiders, but how likely are we to admit to "fear of monsters," "fear of pickles," or "fear of elbows." Before turning to search data to learn more about fear, I've often wondered what the most common phobias...
Allen, 54, sees UMPCs as nothing less than a game changer. "We're going to see an explosive evolution of devices like this," he says, "because people want to carry their personal computer with them wherever they go." Laptops are too bulky for that task. Allen likens the FlipStart's prospects to the potential he saw in RIM's early BlackBerry. He says passersby once marveled that he could use it for e-mail. "Now everybody has some kind of mobile device like that." To feed their growing digital appetites, Allen says, consumers want something even more powerful that...
...pursuit, Skocpol seems to have had assistance from Bok. The interim president summoned Skocpol to lead the Task Force on Teaching and Career Development, providing her with a significant resume-boost and a highly visible soapbox upon which to address the Faculty...
...even Bill Bradley in 2000 - each a bold challenger of the party establishment, each of whom failed to displace the heirs (Carter, Mondale, Gore) of the same stolid establishment forces that stood in Bobby's way in 1968. Finishing Bobby's work is the most gripping and compelling task for today's Democratic Party...