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...public outpouring in Italy when his grandfather died, with top political leaders and ordinary citizens flocking to the wake and funeral, sealed the family's decision to commit to Fiat's future - even if it meant the hard work of selling assets, overhauling management and reinvesting in the core company, hardly the typical Italian way of doing business. "This country paid a great tribute to my grandfather," Elkann said. "It was a family feeling to respond." Though it unfolds like a Victorian play, Elkann insists that his ascendancy to the Fiat throne was "very natural." Born in New York City...
...understand reverence for the flag. It comes naturally to soldiers. We commit our lives to serving intangibles, swearing oaths to a piece of parchment or saluting an expanse of cloth decorated with stars and stripes. We understand symbolism because symbolism is what in large measure compels us to do a job that might result in our demise...
Matthew C. Thomas '06-'07, named team captain of the 2006 Crimson on Nov. 22nd, was arrested by Harvard University police on June 5th and charged with assault and battery domestic abuse, breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony, and malicious destruction of property in connection with an incident in Currier House...
...model project that we've got in place for a small poor county in eastern North Carolina, where we call College for Everyone, where every child in the county can go to college. We pay for their tuition and books their first year, if they commit to work 10 hours a week their first year, and they graduate from high school qualified...
...Warner was the first Presidential hopeful to commit to coming to Yearly Kos. Jerome Armstrong, the co-author of "Crashing the Gate" with Yearly Kos namesake Markos Moulitsas, is the governor's Internet consultant and unofficial blogger liaison. Clearly, the Warner campaign has great hopes for leveraging what convention-goers call "the netroots." Yet to judge by Warner's actual speech, the netroots are just another constituency, a Democratic special-interest group to be placated by a campaign promise or two. Aside from a warm-up that referenced the night's festivities, Warner delivered his time-tested stump speech...