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...said he wrote the story of the Corleone family as a way to make some money when he was broke at the midpoint of his career. Random House hopes the new book will be turned into a movie like the memorable first Godfather film, which was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starred Marlon Brando. Proposals for possible story lines are due on Nov. 4, and Karp and the Puzo estate will choose the winner. If they really wanted to make some money, they'd turn the search into a competition and air it in weekly installments on TV. Right...
Dressed as energy-inefficient Ford vehicles, members of Harvard’s Sierra Student Coalition (SSC) went door to door in various Houses and Yard dorms Wednesday evening, seeking through preemptive “reverse trick-or-treating” to raise student awareness of alternative energy options and persuade Ford to make these options available in their most popular cars and trucks...
Sixteen trick-or-treaters, motoring through campus in groups of two, gave students bags of candy in exchange for their signatures on postcards to Ford asking that the company implement the national Sierra Club’s “Freedom Option Package,” a two-page proposal suggesting that manufacturers offer cars equipped with certain technologies designed to increase fuel efficiency...
Suskewicz said it was definitely feasible for Ford and other car companies to follow the Sierra Club’s proposals...
Neither development greatly imperils the retirement income you have already earned, which is guaranteed by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. But a severely underfunded pension signals a financially strapped organization, one that may scale back future benefits outside the pension plan. Dozens of companies, including Ford and Sears, have reduced retiree health-insurance benefits this year...