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...that boom has come to a halt. On Oct. 13 Opel suspended production at Eisenach for three weeks to help sell off a stockpile of excess cars, hundreds of which crowd a parking lot inside the factory complex. Opel electrician Katrin Huber, 29, isn't happy about this vacation. "The plant shutdown is going to cost me more than $400," she says. "But worse is that we just don't know what the future holds. I'm afraid that the plant could close...
...their innumerable exceptions calls for patience, persistence, and an analytical mind—all qualities that behoove a student of any discipline.In literature and poetry, the classical languages have left an unmistakable influence on subsequent traditions. Readings of Shakespeare or Corneille or even Beckett are deeper and more complex with an understanding of the rules of Greek drama that those playwrights emulated—or conspicuously shunned. In Dante or Dryden or Tennyson, one can sense the palpable presence of Vergil. To disembody literature from the larger tradition of which the authors were knowingly partaking would appear an artificial...
...student’s wants and needs. [The rankings] are there to help get you started.” Former Harvard College Dean Harry R. Lewis ’68 also took a circumspect view on the most recent rankings announcement. “Human beings are complex, and what’s best for one person won’t be best for another,” Lewis said in a written statement. “So I approve of transparency, but tend not to assign to much significance to one-dimensional rankings,” U.K. schools...
...decided to take on the malady that often afflicts American women: "Fear of looking our age." Teitell, who is 47 ("the youngest I'll ever be again in my life") and writes regularly for the Boston Globe, spent a year exploring the American obsession with youth - the Botox Industrial Complex - for her new book, Drinking Problems at the Fountain of Youth (William Morrow). TIME Reporter Andrea Sachs caught up with Teitell by phone at her home in Boston...
...father," Martin replied. And she went on: "Then my sister-in-law and my pastor helped me out. They gave me places to go online to learn the truth." Her sister-in-law is so committed to Obama that she has volunteered to knock on doors in her apartment complex. "She ran into two old guys who were for McCain, but all the rest were leaning toward Obama...