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...announces plans to slash 21,000 jobs, close dealerships and drop the Pontiac brand. Saturn, Saab and Hummer go on the block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

...some ways, Lit is her most intimate book, full of fallibilities and acceptance of responsibility and viewed at more immediate narrative proximity (although she must be close to 20 years sober now). Karr is less a character and more a living, breathing being. And as a mother to a son, Dev, she is both stronger and more vulnerable. At one point during an attempt to quit drinking cold turkey, she describes his toddler hand on her back as she vomits; his innocent query "Did you get a bad food?" wrecks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Memoirist's Club | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

...past year. African-American Protestants lead this trend, with 42% visiting houses of worship in other traditions, including Catholic churches (19%), Jewish synagogues (8%) and Muslim mosques (5%). One-quarter of white evangelicals share that interest in other traditions. But they are also the most likely to stay close to home: more than half say they attend services only at their own church, not even visiting other churches in the same denomination, although a quarter report trying out services in other traditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Advent, Light the Menorah! | 12/13/2009 | See Source »

Fastidious, creative, and brilliant: these are the three words that Winston X. Yan’s close friend and business partner Alexander G. Bick ’10 would use to describe the Adams resident. As a member of the Varsity Sailing Team, a co-founder of the start-up Rover, and a researcher at a lab attempting to create smaller and less expensive MRI machines, this physics major certainly seems to live up to such descriptions...

Author: By SOFIE C. BROOKS, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Most Interesting Seniors: Winston X. Yan | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...founders’ close friendship and dedication to their project is evident from their enthusiasm. Bick describes Winston as a director who leads by example. “At every point, Winston’s always trying to come up with a bigger and grander vision,” he says...

Author: By SOFIE C. BROOKS, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Most Interesting Seniors: Winston X. Yan | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

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