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...accidents (one in Denmark, the other in Lithuania, both involving aircraft owned by SAS) involving its bestselling Q400 in a space of three days. In January 2008, SAS, which suffered a third Q400 accident, said it had examined its planes' landing gear and that a preliminary Danish Accident Investigation Board had concluded that a construction error was behind the first two accidents. Denying it was responsible for those accidents, SAS added that a valve that was the focus of the accident report "is currently being modified by the supplier." It asked for $77 million in compensation from Bombardier and stopped...
...five- or six- or 10-year period" to a "75% solution in weeks or months." To help accomplish that, he is salting the military's senior ranks with officers who agree with him. He tapped General David Petraeus, whose counterinsurgency skills helped stabilize Iraq, to head an Army board asked to sift through colonels to identify those who merit promotion to one-star general. "An institution can always beat one or two people," Gates said recently, "but it's tough to beat four or five...
...winning over some critics. Emanuel Jones, chairman of Georgia's Legislative Black Caucus, says his "ears perked up" at talk of funding disparities, and he is co-sponsoring a resolution to study the merger's impact in detail. For now, the proposal is "not actually being considered by the [board of] regents," the only group with the authority to approve it, says John Millsaps, a spokesman for Georgia's university system. And while Chancellor Erroll Davis Jr. has said the plan could save money, he has also stated that it would harm students...
California isn't the only state grappling with steep K-12 budget cuts. In Florida, officials in overcrowded school districts are bracing themselves for likely staff cuts. Connecticut's board of education adopted a budget resolution in December that included an overall 10% reduction - a move that some fear means that pink slips for teachers are inevitable. "The biggest line items in most school budgets are staff and benefits," says Bob Brewer, an education consultant in East Hartford, Conn. "No district can absorb those kinds of hits without trimming some of those big-ticket items." (See pictures of politically engaged...
Harvard will follow the same simple recipe against both opponents: execute. Lin will be key to putting points on the board. Harris, along with freshman Keith Wright, will have to continue to rebound well. Columbia has a consistent, deep bench and good inside presence, so Harvard must also focus on minimizing turnovers...