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...Porsche announced the U-turn late on Wednesday after a series of intense meetings between Wolfgang Porsche and Ferdinand Piech, the patriarchs of the families that control the two iconic German companies. Now, VW and Porsche will enter weeks of intense talks to thrash out the final structure of a merger that will add Porsche as a tenth brand to VW's stable, which already includes Audi, Bentley and Czech manufacturer Skoda, as well as the VW brand. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...Porsche's management found it easy to wind its way through capital markets to scoop up VW shares, it was less agile at negotiating the twists and turns in the political relationships needed to take control of a company like VW. The company is based in Wolfsburg in Lower Saxony and the state holds 20% of its shares, but through a law written just for VW, the so-called "Lex VW," the state cannot be outvoted. Lower Saxony's governor, Christian Wulff, a Christian Democrat who sits on the VW supervisory board, opposed a takeover of the company by Porsche...
According to a CEB e-mail, the tournament was cut primarily due to lowered participation. There was also the issue of some Houses allowing a small group of people to control the armies of non-participating students. (That’s fair—we at FlyBy definitely recall relinquishing our fas emails last year in bewildered apathy and then promptly forgetting about the entire thing.) Plus, running Turf takes money and manpower to implement. Basically, it sounds like the CEB just got a little battle-weary...
...agenda. The idea that what has been missing from this movement was a gaggle of boys swooping in to save the day suggests that women can’t take care of themselves. That is a notion that, when reinforced, is unlikely to help women to feel more in control of their sexual interactions. And this is perhaps the cherry on the sundae that is MenSpeakUp’s failure—however benevolent its intentions, the group’s very basis is an act of dominating women, not of empowering them...
...manipulative and synthetic as "The Language of Health Care 2009" often sounds, the bottom line is Luntz knows what he's doing. He's widely credited for helping Republicans seize and maintain control of Congress in the 1990s, and many Luntzisms continue to be staples of Washington rhetoric (just think of how often you hear about "tax relief"). Every American has a stake in the massive battle coming over health care reform, and voters would be wise to understand the weapons deployed to sway public opinion on both sides. However, how to craft smart reform and find common ground...