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...China's desire to move into the world's largest auto market may not have to be put off by years while it develops models that would be attractive to U.S. consumers. A government-supported initiative to sell vehicles in America would allow one or more of the car firms on the mainland to play on the same field that helped Toyota (TM) and Honda (HMC) build themselves into two of the largest companies in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ford May Try to Shop Volvo to China | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

...also about what MONUC is. In addition to 3,000 extra troops, Doss persuaded the U.N. Security Council to expand MONUC's mandate to allow it to target the commercial drivers of the war: the trade in Congo's minerals, like gold, and the world's largest reserves of coltan, which is needed to make components for cell phones. He continues to argue for an even more muscular approach to enforcing peace. "When we make these statements, when we claim the responsibility to protect, we have to be careful that we have the means to match our mandate," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congo Seeks Protection | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

...Core-Gen Ed transition years, Harvard undergrads, enraptured by the hope of real change they can believe in, will flee to work for The One. President Drew G. Faust will breathe a sigh of relief, as the mass departure of students will provide temporary relief for House overcrowding and allow her to delay costly building renovations until better economic times...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child, Emmeline D. Francis, Daniel E. Herz-roiphe, Emma M. Lind, Marcel E. Moran, Alix M. Olian, Ramya Parthasarathy, Jessica A. Sequeira, and James M. Wilsterman | Title: Predictions | 1/28/2009 | See Source »

...Brant, however, ruled that while selling books is constitutionally protected, the city reserves the right to implement time, place, and manner restrictions, and identified a 50-cent peddler’s permit that would allow Kibler to continue his business. According to O’Brien, Kibler soon left the bookstand...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Square Bookseller To Close Bookstand | 1/28/2009 | See Source »

...named because of the sensitivity of the subject, said the campaign to keep Holbrooke out was "not personal...we just objected to being lumped into a category with two of the world's most dangerous countries." Besides, he added, "there was no way we were going to allow Holbrooke, or anybody else, become a broker on Kashmir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Kashmir Be an Obama Foreign Policy Focus? | 1/28/2009 | See Source »

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