Halliburton Company (HAL:NYSE)

GREAT BARRINGTON -- It's easy enough to pull off a prank -- just ask punk'd specialist Ashton Kutcher or the jackasses of "Jackass" -- but it's something else to pull off a brilliantly conceived prank that exposes corporate folly and hypocrisy.

GREAT BARRINGTON -- It's easy enough to pull off a prank -- just ask punk'd specialist Ashton Kutcher or the jackasses of "Jackass" -- but it's something else to pull off a brilliantly conceived prank that exposes corporate folly and hypocrisy.

KBR security personnel expected casualties the night before six civilian drivers were killed and others injured in an Iraqi ambush, but sent the convoy into a combat zone anyway, according to e-mails presented in a Houston federal court Wednesday.

Oilfield services giant Halliburton Co. on Wednesday said it was awarded a contract valued at about $122 million by Total SA, Europe's third-largest oil company. Under the terms of the three-year contract, Halliburton has agreed to provide drilling and completion fluid solutions in Indonesia. Shares of the company fell 20 cents to $31.55 in afternoon trading.

Halliburton has been awarded a three-year contract, with an estimated value of $122 million by Total to provide drilling and completion fluid solutions in Indonesia. About Halliburton. Founded in 1919, Halliburton is one of the world’s largest providers of products and services to the energy industry. Source: Halliburton.

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An Osterville man diagnosed with cancer is one of two soldiers from Massachusetts to sue major military contractors, alleging the companies exposed them to toxic smoke and fumes during their service in Iraq. James W. Garland of Tower Hill Road joined Jeffrey Cox of Salem in filing suit against government contractors Halliburton and KBR Inc., among others, in U.S. District Court in Boston.