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...without massive federal assistance. The company is burning through more than $2 billion each month. It has $16 billion left. As if they were aboard a dirigible losing altitude, GM's bosses have been frantically throwing all manner of stuff overboard - retiree health-care benefits, people, assets, new car design - to conserve $5 billion. That will get it through the year. (See pictures of the 50 worst cars of all time...
...gave general motors cheers for the Chevy Volt, a car still in the design phase. Instead, the company deserves jeers for not reintroducing the EV1, the electric vehicle it launched in the 1990s and canceled on the ground that it was unprofitable. The car worked then, so it should work better now, considering the improvements in battery technology over the last decade. Let's get big business making cars the customers want to buy. Peter Miller, Seattle...
...sense watching it all happen was that there was no overall design to this,” said former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68, who was an active participant in the Faculty debates surrounding...
...College in 1942. At the age of four, Hannah realized what he wanted to do with his life, following this dream to Bard College to study painting. The faculty members there were color-field painters, specializing in the abstract, so Hann ah transferred to the Parsons New School of Design two years later. “I wanted the challenge of verisimilitude,” Hannah says. “There is something in me that wanted to make narrative paintings, which of course abstract does not offer.” Hannah cites the narratives of novelist Graham Greene...
...arts in other college curriculums.Once published, the Report set off a number of college reforms which ranged from symbolic (changing the Department of Fine Arts to the Department of History of Art and Architecture) to groundbreaking, with the creation of a concentration explicitly for the study of design. Ultimately, the Committee’s reforms impacted the College and its relationship to the arts, but their implementation also took a great deal of time. It took 42 years for the Department of Fine Arts to change its name and 12 for the Visual and Environmental Studies department to be granted...