Word: christiane
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...loyalist. VW's financial prospects have brightened in recent months, and investors and industry officials fretted that Pischetrieder's exit could jeopardize the restructuring. "We see it as negative for VW," reckoned Credit Suisse analyst Harald Hendrikse. At France's Peugeot Citroën, Europe's second largest carmaker, Christian Streiff was appointed to succeed Jean-Martin Folz, 59, after he failed to reverse slumping sales. Streiff, 52, who has a reputation as a tough cost cutter, recently resigned as head of Airbus after just three months in the job. In Italy, meanwhile, Sergio Marchionne, 54, announced that after restoring...
...forget about "racial guilt." As an Asian American who strongly supports Obama, where do I fall? Once again, a conversation on race has been reduced to white and black. I am energized by the Senator because he is smart, thoughtful and pragmatic. He represents me, a Democrat with strong Christian values. He knows the struggle of trying to attain the American Dream and the difficulties of being an ethnic minority in America. It's as simple as that. Chong-Hwa Lee Derwood, Maryland...
...Christian and conservative Republican, but I can't help hoping that Obama will become our next President. I believe he is wrong about abortion, but he has acknowledged in a refreshingly Socratic way that he can't just dismiss the views of those on the other side. That may be politicking to earn my vote, but if a pro-life Republican ultimately sends us into a third world war with status quo Republican rhetoric, a pro-life position is kind of pointless. Eric Murr Greencastle, Pennsylvania...
...Buoyed by rural Christian evangelicals, Corker outlasted five-term Congressman Harold Ford Jr. by 51% to 48% of the vote, ending for now Ford's bid to become the first African American from the South since Reconstruction to join the Senate...
...Republicans. While he would seek to move the G.O.P. back to the roots of the 1994 movement, he actually comes from a new generation of House Republicans, elected since 2000, who have never served in the minority. And the former conservative talk show host, who calls himself as "a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order," is closer to the conservative Christians who play a big role in G.O.P. politics than most of the current leadership. At the same time, he's been willing to look for compromises on some key issues, attempting earlier this year to fashion...