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...Chrysler is a bit of a mystery. CEO Robert Nardelli has been somewhat scant on details for new products other than announcing an electric-vehicle platform that has so far not impressed anybody. No one would be surprised if Cerberus, Chrysler's owner, announced some kind of partnership or merger before the year...
Many members were particularly wary about how Chrysler, which is controlled by a private-equity fund and has made no secret that it's shopping for a merger partner, will spend the money. "It troubles me a little bit knowing that basically all we're really doing is providing a little capital for y'all to hang around long enough to get married," said Republican Bob Corker of Tennessee...
...there on the streets of Mumbai, too. On the morning after the morning after, the vegetable sellers came out in the badly hit Colaba district. All the other shops were still closed, but these men and women stacked up their tomatoes and eggplants, breathing that first bit of life back into the city. The siege was far from finished, and they couldn't know what that new day would bring, but they were there to be part...
...when Kennedy beat Nixon? Look what happened within a decade: the moon landing, but also Vietnam and Nixon. Here in the U.K., New Labor's arrival in 1997 was greeted with much the same enthusiasm as Obama's is now. A decade on, we have a government every bit as reactionary and illiberal as any Tory government from the past century; official snooping and surveillance that would be totally unacceptable in the U.S.; Iraq and Afghanistan; and the worst recession in 80 years. Realistically, Obama will not be able to achieve as much as the liberals want. Nick O'Shea...
Iceland knows a bit about kicking the fossil-fuel habit. At the turn of the last century, life on the isolated island was bleak. It had been among the poorest nations in Europe for centuries, and a smoky haze choked Reykjavik, thanks to the coal inhabitants burned during the interminable winters. In the 1930s, Icelandic engineers successfully diverted underground water to heat an elementary school, and the rest of the capital slowly followed suit. When the global oil crisis hit in the 1970s, efforts to turn this local resource into electricity - by drilling holes into underground heat pockets and reservoirs...