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...Committee meets only three or four times a semester. During the summer, while professors were working hard to produce syllabi for the new courses, the Core office had not started its procedures. Thankfully, we had administrators shrewd enough to bypass these inanities and eventually approve the Humanities courses by fiat. But the damage was already done: Many students did not even bother shopping those classes as they deemed it pointless to wait indefinitely for a decision...
...guidance as to what general education requirement these general education courses would fulfill. The Core Committee’s failure to explicitly outline their role left Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 and interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles to declare by fiat that three of the Humanities courses will count as Literature and Arts-A Core courses...
...course, the prize is not yet Elkann's. Although his decision-making role and public presence have recently begun to swell, Fiat chairman Luca di Montezemolo and CEO Sergio Marchionne are still largely in charge. The Fiat Group, which counts CNH tractors and Iveco trucks among its holdings, has been buoyed recently by strong numbers from its once suffering automobile division. Under the turnaround leadership of Marchionne, European sales of the auto group (which includes the Fiat, Lancia and Alfa Romeo brands) jumped 23.2% in the first five months of this year, representing nearly half of the overall company...
...creative DNA has multiplied through his author father and painter mother. "Artists have a sensibility that others don't have," he says. "They have a way of reading into the future." And so, in their own way, do business leaders. They just tend to have less time. Fiat's Fortunes [This article contains charts. Please see hardcopy of magazine...
...Income in billions of dollars '96--'05 $1.58 billion Source: Fiat S.p.A...