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...fall, the Ram heavy truck, and the next new vehicle, the redesigned 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee, won't appear until next spring. Facing a dearth of new products, Chrysler hands blame the company's previous owner, Cerberus Capital Management LLC, for slashing the product development budget in a failed bid to reach profitability. But it's more than just a lack of new vehicles plaguing the automaker; it's also the vehicles it has in hand. "Chrysler continues to struggle," Consumer Reports said earlier this month. "More than one third of Chrysler products are much worse than average," the magazine...
...attorney General, McDonnell won all nine cases argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, from 2006 to early 2009, when he left to pursue his gubernatorial bid...
...immigrants, naturalized citizens and French-born minorities as posing threats to it. Some opponents have also accused the government of using an emotive issue to try to divert attention from a series of high-profile political scandals in recent months, such as the accusations of nepotism surrounding a bid by President Nicolas Sarkozy's son to attain a public post and the allegations that the French Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterrand paid for sex with boys in Thailand. Besson was also highly criticized himself for ordering an illegal refugee camp near Calais to be razed in September...
While library funding should be preserved, the library system should look for efficiencies that can improve quality and save money wherever possible. As the task force led by University Provost Steven E. Hyman has noted, the current decentralized system forces Harvard libraries to bid against each other to acquire the same books. An effort to better coordinate services would hopefully result in savings without the loss of one of Harvard’s most important resources...
...Obama Administration's bid to relaunch an Israeli-Palestinian peace process is falling apart faster than you can say settlement freeze - in no small part because President Barack Obama began his effort by saying settlement freeze. On Monday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton found herself struggling to persuade skeptical Arab foreign ministers to see the silver lining in Israel's "No, but ..." answer to the U.S. demand that Israel halt all construction in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. At least Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was offering to restrain settlement activity, Clinton said, but Arab leaders, whom Obama...