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...year-old British confectioner Cadbury for $19.5 billion, ending months of resistance and rejected offers. But the takeover has left a bad taste for British citizens upset at the sale of a national icon--and for Kraft shareholder Warren Buffett, who criticized the purchase. If finalized, the deal will make Kraft the largest player in the global candy market, displacing Mars...
Over the past few years, however, there's been a Saarinen reappraisal. Set free by computer-aided design, contemporary architects like Santiago Calatrava, Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid have moved quite a distance from Modernist orthodoxy. And a great deal of Saarinen's work, especially his adventures in fluid geometry, today looks as if it's the predecessor of theirs. It's easier now to regard his expressive buildings as a principled attempt to reconcile the Modernist drive to purify and clarify with the abiding human desire for something that strikes other, warmer and no less essential chords. (See pictures...
...record stated that the student’s behaviors were symptomatic of a more psychological problem, as many of the children were effectively suffering from “post-traumatic stress disorder.” In hushed tones, these teachers described issues that students were forced to deal with at home, and how the students deal with an ever-present understanding that many in the school’s leadership have no sincere or abiding interest in their future welfare. Rather, these “leaders” are interested in housing them for eight hours, without truly teaching...
...Obama with their ideas for the stimulus bill. They weren't greatly encouraged, though, when Obama told them at that meeting in the Roosevelt Room that "elections have consequences, and I won." Over the weekend, the GOP leadership met, and by the time House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a deal on the legislation late Sunday, they were sure that nothing they had proposed was included in the measure...
...there has been no response from Khamenei, though right-wing hard-liners have heaped scorn on the proposal. But there are some signs that the state may be open to a deal, or at least to giving some breathing room to the opposition. In the past two weeks, state television ran a series of programs that allowed critics of President Ahmadinejad to openly air their views. In January, a parliamentary panel accused former Tehran prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi, a hard-line former judge, of being responsible for the violent deaths of three jailed opposition dissenters after antigovernment protests in July...