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...plunging consumer demand - new-car sales across Europe dropped 14.5% in October - France's two major automakers, Renault and Peugeot-Citroen, have temporarily shut down production at several plants. Peugeot is expected to present a plan Tuesday to cut 2,700 jobs. In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel has been more cautious in response to the crisis, and warned against precipitate state intervention. Still, Berlin is expected to approve up to $1.26 billion in loan guarantees for Opel if parent company GM goes under...
There's nothing new in China being touchy on the subject of Tibet, of course. What makes this latest episode unusual is China's failure to call out other European leaders who have met with the Dalai Lama recently - as British premier Gordon Brown did in May, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel did in August. Beijing also has little to say about E.U. officials who will speak with the Dalai Lama during his tour of Europe this month - including officials from the Czech Republic, which assumes the E.U.'s rotating presidency from France in January. So why the exceptionally rough...
...serious. Often, of course, it's been the other way around. This is the country whose prime minister himself cracks bad jokes, comments such as his recent quip that Barack Obama is "young, handsome and suntanned." Two weeks' ago, Berlusconi even played a "peek-a-boo" prank on German Chancellor Angela Merkel, hiding behind a monument as Merkel arrived in the Italian city of Trieste for an economic summit and discussions on the global downturn...
Education has been a primary commitment of TIME's, and this is our eighth education cover in the past 2 1/2 years. Amanda Ripley's powerful portrait of Washington, D.C., public schools chancellor Michelle Rhee offers a blueprint for helping revive urban schools. It's a story that should be instructive not only to teachers and students but also to President-elect and Mrs. Obama, who have said they will take a personal interest in education and the Washington community. All of us should welcome their involvement...
...have enough resources to serve all the students who want in. "It's not fair to students to admit them to a university and not be able to offer classes, sections and student services that they need and academic advising and help that students deserve," says CSU chancellor Charles Reed. Cal State tried to cope with the economic downturn in the early 1990s by increasing overall class size, but many students could not enroll in the courses they needed and ultimately dropped out. The school is trying to avoid a repeat of those mistakes...