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With financial losses continuing to mount and market share continuing to fall, General Motors Corp. is hoping more than 35,000 blue-collar workers will accept an early retirment package and, as a result, help expedite the floundering company's much-needed restructuring. It also hopes the packages will help bail out its principal supplier, the bankrupt Delphi Corp. But as so often happens with GM's attempted comeback, the announcement raised as many questions as answers...
...change the code. He feels that it forces particular values on unwilling students.“It’s intolerant of Harvard itself to force its values on religious institutions or groups who may not share those sentiments,” he says. He says it would be acceptable to include intersexed individuals–those born with genitalia or secondary sex characteristics that are neither exclusively male nor female–in the nondiscrimination code because, “if you’re born that way, it’s a disability.” Vaz, however...
...both the judge and prosecutors have questioned his sanity and his fitness to stand trial. "We think he could be mad," prosecutor Sarinwal Zamari told the AP. "He does not talk like a normal person." Rahman earlier told the court, "They want to sentence me to death and I accept it, but I am not a deserter and not an infidel. I am a Christian, which means I believe in the Trinity...
...matter must be left to the courts, underscores the political sensitivity of the case. Even after the Taliban's ouster, much of Afghanistan's political life is dominated by conservative Islamists. And successive Afghan governments have come out strongly against proselytizing by Christian missionary groups - they're willing to accept aid, but are hostile to any attempt to secure converts. That may fly in the face of the principle of religious freedom, just as the furor over the Danish cartoons challenged the principle of freedom of speech, but there's little doubt that any appearance of Western powers seeking...
...standardized testing of college students at a public meeting of the commission yesterday. If this suggestion were implemented, Harvard students might once again face the kind of mandatory testing many of them experienced through state-wide exams in grade school. But Harvard “would be reluctant to accept any form of standardized testing,” Senior Director of Federal and State Relations Kevin Casey said in an interview yesterday. “Standardized curricula or testing would limit our ability to educate,” MIT President Susan Hockfield said at a meeting...