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...Road General Motors agreed to pay Fiat €1.55 billion to terminate a "put" option that could have forced GM to acquire the Italian firm's debt-laden auto division. The companies also unwound some of the their joint-venture agreements. Four days later, Fiat ousted Herbert Demel, its car unit...
...Herbert C. “Clay” Pell ‘05, the grandson of former Senator Claiborne A. Pell, whose sub-committee enacted Pell Grant program in 1972, characterized the proposed changes as “a beginning...
...strapped down and made to believe he may be drowned-may have been discussed. Gonzales allowed that he could not quite recall specifically how he felt about waterboarding, but he did generally support the thrust of the Justice Department's decision to severely constrict the definition of torture. Senator Herbert Kohl of Wisconsin elicited Gonzales' acknowledgment that the new Bush Administration policy on torture had "migrated" to the CIA and Pentagon and from there to Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. Not one of the Senators bothered to ask whether the President had been informed by his close aide Gonzales that...
...House of Commons was at last demanding a whip hand over the House of Lords, and Their Lordships with embattled obstinacy would not yield. They had haughtily rejected the Commons' so-called "People's Budget" championed by liberal Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith, later the Earl of Oxford & Asquith, and were arrayed against the radical proviso to impose an extreme tax on income and property of Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George, whose ungentlemanly Limehouse speeches at this time were all about "our dissolute dukes...
...wage campaign came to an end, Mackinnon became a central player at HarvardWatch, a student and alumni watchdog agency that “keeps tabs on Harvard finances and governance,” she says. Her research for the organization delved deeply into the involvement of Harvard Corporation member Herbert S. “Pug” Winokur ’64-’65 in the collapse of Enron Energy...