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...tough taskmaster who pushes his 500-member sales force as hard as he pushes himself. In many ways, Leahy is a typical American business executive. Except he's not in America. In Toulouse he heads the marketing arm of Europe's Airbus Industrie, the four-nation consortium that has been making life painfully difficult for U.S. aviation giant Boeing, in no small measure because of Leahy's efforts...
Then there's Airbus, long ridiculed by Boeing as a massive pork-barrel project for second-rate aircraft manufacturers. Last year the European consortium captured 55% of global-passenger jetliner sales, outflanking Boeing for the first, but probably not the last, time. Competitive prices and superior salesmanship are factors in the success of Airbus, but so is technology. Airbus beat Boeing to the market with computer-laden "fly-by-wire" technology, which, it says, enhances safety while lowering costs. The flying experience is so similar from model to model that Airbus-equipped airlines save millions of dollars in training costs...
...York City-based group comprising rappers Priest, Beans and Sayyid along with producer Earl Blaize, the Consortium makes music that could best be described as art-school hip-hop. The free-flowing lyrics on this album are inspired by poetry slams; the rhythms are stripped-down and direct, keeping the focus on the words. These songs are, by turns, grandly prophetic, perversely abstract and straight-up street. Far from a tragic epilogue, this is a welcome addition to the growing canon of outsider...
Some stories shouldn't be changed, some opponents don't need added advantage, and some fights just aren't fair. But try telling that to the consortium of colleges presently working to deprive prospective students of their right to bargain financial aid--their one sling strong enough to knock the towering cost of higher education to its knees...
This is not to say that such a consortium should be completely beyond of the realm of possibility. Instead, we should follow the plan Harvard administrators have sketched out--follow the progress of the colloquium from a distance, and re-evaluate our position at a later date...