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...does Tengzhong, a private company based in China's southwestern Sichuan province, hope to revive Hummer? The company has offered few details. It manufactures heavy machinery, road and bridge construction equipment, and special-use vehicles like dump trucks and cement mixers. With fuel prices remaining high, Tengzhong may restrict Hummer to some type of specialized application, rather than position the vehicle as a toy for wealthy consumers, says John Bonnell, director of Asia Pacific forecasting for J.D. Power and Associates. "I think the future is something outside a normal passenger vehicle for the Hummer," says Bonnell...
...natural for political parties to seek power. As a Republican, I root for Republicans to win as many elections as possible. But I hope I am objective enough to recognize that our country is often ill-served by the concentration of political power in one party’s hands, regardless of which party holds...
...food” kind too), pollution. But as I finish my third and final year as a student at Harvard, and as the college has quietly done away with transfer admissions a year after announcing a two-year suspension of the program, I continue to hope that Harvard doesn’t permanently decide that transfer students are one of the things the school is better off without than with. I fear that institutional inertia will lead Harvard to continue along its current path rather than return to what was, but in this case, it’s worth...
...Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Ali Aboul Gheit said of Obama's team during a recent visit to Washington. "I think they are very much different from the Bush Administration." Last month, Jordan's King Abdullah II enthused on Meet the Press, "In the Middle East, this President provides hope ... There's a collective hope that there is a new America." (See Cairo getting ready for Obama...
...Still, what Obama has been hoping to elicit from the Saudis and other moderate Arab regimes are some new gestures of outreach to the Israelis, in the hope that these could help persuade Israel to make concessions of its own. It was not immediately clear during Wednesday's talks whether Obama had managed to persuade King Abdullah to offer Israel new inducements towards negotiating a two-state solution...