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Both companies want at least some commitment on the extent of the union concessions by Feb.17 when GM and Chrysler are scheduled to submit drafts of their new "viability plans" to the Treasury department. The automakers are supposed to show they have labor costs that are "competitive" with foreign car companies operating in the U.S. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...department at Harvard. “She had the rare gift of an original mind, an iron will, and a penetrating intellect,” McCormick said. “She was fearless.” Elegantly coiffed and impeccably dressed, Greece’s former deputy secretary of foreign affairs would sweep into class like Pallas Athena herself, said history graduate student Rowan W. Dorin ’07. Laiou would sometimes affix a freshly cut rose to her blouse during her time as director of Dumbarton Oaks, said the research center’s current director Alice-Mary...
...environment—had greatly inspired him. “Most people are not interested in nature. We’re more interested in other people,” Peterson, the moderator, said. “The trick is to draw people away from the human experience to another foreign experience.” Montgomery stressed the connection between people and the rest of creation in her writing. “My goal is to make people care about the green sweet world,” she said. Harvard Museum of Natural History Executive Director Elisabeth A. Werby...
...fight over cultural issues. Conservatives have been claiming since before the election that Obama would be "the most pro-abortion President in history," and they are eager for evidence to back up that charge. After Obama overturned the so-called abortion gag rule late last Friday - which had prohibited foreign nongovernmental family-planning groups from receiving any U.S. funds if they provided abortions or even lobbied for abortion rights in their country - House GOP leader John Boehner shot out a press release titled "President Obama's Executive Order Allowing Taxpayer-Funded Abortions Overseas," even though federal law continues to prohibit...
...President visited the State Department on his second full day in office to send a message: diplomacy will now take precedence over military force in U.S. foreign policy - and his Administration's will be a diplomacy of constant, persistent attention to the world's problem areas rather than slapdash summitry. The occasion for Obama's visit was the announcement of two special envoys, Richard Holbrooke and George Mitchell, both of whom represent a silent reproach to the Bush Administration. Holbrooke will have the near impossible task of untangling the mess in Afghanistan and Pakistan, a problem exacerbated by recent American...