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...Windsor. "Across Canada opposition to bailing out the car companies is something like 4 to 1," says analyst DesRosiers, who has more than 30 years of auto-industry experience. For $9 billion, he adds, the Canadian government could have asked any of the solvent Japanese or European automakers to build five new car plants in Ontario...
...growth will eventually look for better returns elsewhere. In the absence of better opportunities, Indians will continue to seek the security of government jobs for their children, making it that much more difficult to reform India's bloated bureaucracy. Without public-sector reform, India won't be able to build the modern intelligence, police and emergency services it needs to cope with 21st century terrorism...
...know what I mean. Nonetheless, Eli got me thinking of some more ideas for things that every Harvard senior needs to do. Some of these, I have done. Others, I hope one day, or in the next day or two, to do, and do it hard. 1. Build a sled and slide down Widener steps. This is great for many reasons: one, sledding kicks ass, two, snow rules, and three, speed is way better than not-speed. Special challenge time: use a HUDS Dining Hall tray instead of a sled. Super challenge time: build the sled entirely out of beer...
...hand-selected Harvard men moved into Quincy House as the original occupants of the College’s first contemporary residence. Breaking with the architectural tradition of the initial seven Houses, Quincy’s concrete, high-rise exterior and novelty imbued its initial inhabitants with the freedom to build an interior House character from the ground up. As one of Quincy’s original 150 sophomores, Robert J. Gordon ’62 recalls the sense of pomp and privilege surrounding the newly-constructed eighth House. “In Quincy, we were proud of our modern, posh...
...president. He came up to a football game [in Cambridge]...He saw the MTA yards and said ‘Aha! That would be nice spot for a library.’”From that point on, according to Paisner, the University abandoned any lingering plans to build Houses on the Bennett Street Yards and redirected its efforts to helping bring Kennedy’s presidential library to the site. But they were ultimately unsuccessful; Kennedy’s library was built instead at Columbia Point in Boston.In the fall of 1963, when the MTA finally found...