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...outlook is dire for both automakers. Chrysler, as a private company, doesn't release quarterly financial information but it has confirmed that it lost $1.9 billion in 2007. (The German corporation Daimler, which still owns 19.9% of Chrysler said the American carmaker lost $510 in the first quarter of 2008.) GM lost $15.5 billion in the second quarter and is expected to post additional losses when it reports its third quarter results at the end of October...
...Also on the committee was Dr. S. Allen Counter, professor of neuroscience and director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations. Counter has had a curiously strong record for ethnic vituperation. In 1980, writing to The Crimson to protest a film screening, he played on anti-German stereotypes extensively, though no one involved was German. Counter used the same venue to vent his spleen on the Jews in 1992, in response to bad press about the Harvard Foundation from The Crimson. In the letter he blames “Crimson writers active in Hillel” for fomenting...
...many readers missed out on the delight of those writers because they didn’t buy pink? Categorization. THC: On your website it says you’re a “hyper-fiction writer.” What do you define as hyper-fiction? JC: A German critic was the first one to use that term in an article he wrote about one of my books. I asked what he meant and he cryptically said, “Look up the word in the dictionary.” Lo and behold, one of the definitions...
...care about—whether it’s protecting the environment, picking apples, or helping alleviate homelessness.”But while Cambridge’s Oktoberfest had its differences from Bavaria’s, the organizers gave at least a nod to the event’s German origin. Two sections were cordoned off as “Beer Gardens”—each occupied by employees from Charlie’s Beer Garden and Grafton Street—where people could enjoy two staples of the archetypal Oktoberfest: a beer and a brat.Vic C. Mahillon...
...chunk of the nation's banking system. That was when President Francois Mitterrand nationalized banks in the 1980s. In fact, for a good part of the 1990s, the French budget was knocked sideways because of the losses incurred at just one state-run bank, Credit Lyonnais. The German state's track record in banking isn't much better. Regional governments own some of the dogs of the industry, like WestLB, and even the federal government isn't a brilliant manager. Last month, on the very day Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, state-owned KfW sent a check to Lehman...