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...also promising to deliver a new range of subcompact and compact cars starting next year, along with the battery-powered Chevrolet Volt. GM has five new small cars on the drawing board, including two versions of the Cruise that will replace the Chevrolet Cobalt next spring. In addition, Henderson has confirmed that GM is working on a new family of small cars that, following the intervention of the United Auto Workers, will be built in Michigan rather than China, where GM originally planned to make them. Henderson says the new small cars will be affordable and profitable...
...studying them. Following a strategy first developed by now Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts when, as an aide in the Justice Department, he helped prep Sandra Day O'Connor for her confirmation hearing in 1981, Sotomayor's answers followed a now standard, safe script. Praise Brown v. Board of Ed? Check. Cite Roe v. Wade as "settled law"? Check. Condemn Kormatsu v. the United States? Check...
...proposal as unseemly, but acknowledge its potential practicality in the absence of sufficient government funding. "We have to go after private money, but in a thoughtful way that doesn't compromise our values - or let the public sector off the hook," says Milton Marks, president of the college's board, which is expected to review a formal proposal later this month...
...became the first black woman elected to the American Medical Association's Board of Trustees. In 2002, she became the president of the Alabama Medical Association, making her the first African-American woman to be president of a state medical society...
...organization millions of dollars in fees to broadcast a domestic Olympics. But it's still bad politics to risk alienating IOC voters. The USOC has undergone a management shake-up since the Beijing Games: former CEO Jim Scheer was pushed out and replaced by Stephanie Streeter, a four-year board member, on an interim basis. Right now, the USOC may need a leadership infusion. "You just sit back and wonder, Who is making the decisions?" says Ganis. "Is anyone thinking of the greater good? Why risk so much for something so modest? That's the real head scratcher...