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Most Asian carmakers have taken a humble route to U.S. shores: Toyota's 1968 Corolla carried a modest price tag; South Korea followed in 1986 with the Hyundai Excel. Chinese carmakers Geely and Chery both hope to storm the low end of the U.S. market. But China's Nanjing Automobile Group wants to raise the bar by selling roadsters in the U.S. from 2008 under the famous MG marque. Nanjing, which bought MG Rover last year, hopes to build the $25,000 MG TF coupes in Oklahoma at the first Chinese auto factory on American soil-a long way from...
...more than wrestling over who's better than who." Class rankings, a tradition at many schools, have long helped universities and colleges - especially the Harvards and Princetons of the world - weed out the weak students from the strong, the ones with not only promise but the ambition to excel and meet the rigors of higher education...
...conscious that an enormous proportion of my parents' income went to keeping me in this place and how privileged I was to be there. My attitude was, really throw yourself into it and benefit from it," says Mason. Tom, a fourth-year student, says the school emphasizes excellence so much that "it's quite harsh on people who don't have a talent or field they excel in; it's pretty Darwinistic in that sense. If you don't fit in, that's the guy who will say, 'I'll be the druggie.'" But discipline problems and rebels...
...received favorably because there is rightfully a general consensus, among undergraduates and many faculty members alike, that the Core is antiquated and broken. It seeks to teach “approaches to knowledge” without any reference to the knowledge being approached. The result is students who may excel in cocktail party details but are not necessarily broadly educated.The first and key proposal involves replacing the current Core Curriculum with distributional requirements. These requirements would consist of three courses each in three subject areas—Arts and Humanities, the Study of Societies, and Science and Technology. Distributional requirements...
...California. Ruggiero, born in Michigan and educated in the Northeast, was raised in the Los Angeles area. Although not a businesswoman by training—she received her B.A. in Government in 2004—Ruggiero could use her education and hockey-bred knack for quick thinking to excel in the challenges. The sassy skater showed off her business side this spring, with the release of her autobiography “Breaking the Ice.” The book represented Ruggiero’s attempt to capitalize financially on her popularity and success in the niche sport and signaled...