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...fate of Benelli doesn't fit neatly into conventional accounts of Italy vs. China. For starters, the motomaker had already suffered the consequences of a very different era of Asian competition. In the 1970s, it took a hit from top-performing Japanese bikes. What was once a company of 1,000 employees largely responsible for Pesaro's post-1945 growth had halted new production twice in the past two decades. By 1995, it had laid off all but the shell of a staff; those who were left merely produced replacement parts for existing bikes. Mauro Righi, who has worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China in Italy: Kick Start | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

Chrysler's fate could be the sign of what is to come for the U.S. auto industry and labor unions. Some say Cerberus' difficulty securing loans for the deal could also mean that the heyday of private equity is over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dashboard: Aug. 20, 2007 | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

...Sunni bloc, known in Arabic as Tawafiq, leaves 12 empty seats in Maliki's cabinet, which is supposed to have 37 members. Six ministers tendered their resignation last week after Maliki failed to take any visible steps to address the faction's longstanding concerns, which revolve mainly around the fate of Sunni detainees held by the government and a lack of services in Sunni areas of the country. In the spring, six other ministers loyal to Moqtada al-Sadr abandoned Maliki's government in protest over the Prime Minister's refusal to take a stronger stance against the presence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Maliki Save His Coalition? | 8/6/2007 | See Source »

...would rather have seen a movie about a woman gripped by a frustrated passion to create than a frustrated passion for a really cute guy. I'll stipulate that in Austen's time spinsterhood was a fate to be strenuously avoided. And being a woman writer was by no means an easy path either. Yet, she embraced it, and the immortal results more than justify a hard choice this film never really explores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Unbecoming Jane | 8/3/2007 | See Source »

...friends in Miami have turned his case into a cause celebre in Washington - and even if the brothers eventually do get deported, the publicity they've garnered may well boost the passage of a federal immigration bill that would keep other young people like them from suffering the same fate in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Two Kids Alter Immigration Law? | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

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