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...part of its effort to reorganize under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code, GM has named Al Koch, a partner in J. Alix & Associates, a Detroit-based turnaround firm, to serve as chief restructuring officer. Koch, who has served as the undertaker for dozens of other firms over the years, including Kmart, will be responsible for laying to rest what is already being quaintly referred to as the old GM and what will no doubt be a mountain of liabilities. (See pictures of GM factory-scapes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disposing of the Remains of the Old GM | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

...Rebecca J. Joseph ’85, a former Crimson Executive Arts Editor, is a former inner-city English teacher and current education professor at California State University, Los Angeles, where she trains urban teachers, supports first-generation college goers, and provides workshops on preparing students for college. Chris C. Goodman ’87 is a professor of law at Pepperdine University, where she mentors students at all academic stages and participates in high school outreach programs in east and south Los Angeles...

Author: By Chris C. Goodman and Rebecca J. Joseph | Title: An Open Letter to President Faust and the Harvard Community | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

...Philip J. Fisher’s class on Aestheticism and Modernism—and reading period—have taught me the importance of a sense of playfulness. I’ve learned that there are two approaches to a T minus 24-hours sense of panic: partaking in a dining hall arms race (“Only two papers? Try three.”) and snapping at strangers, or slowing down, taking my computer to Café Algiers, and appreciating January’s new fallen snow...

Author: By Justine R. Lescroart | Title: Café Algiers and Computer Sci | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

...launched her own record label, Compass Records, with her husband bassist Gary West.Brown recalls that the process of starting her own label brought her back to the gates of her alma mater. She remembers picking up Harvard Magazine in the Charles Hotel and learning that Melissa J. Block ’83 was working at National Public Radio. Block set up an interview with Brown on her radio show “All Things Considered.”Later, Brown met her future Compass Records partner at a Harvard Club luncheon in Nashville. When she went to Australia to start...

Author: By Victor W. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Class of 1984: Allison H. Brown | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

...that Franken will be a reliable Democratic vote on health-care reform. "There's no question that a health-care bill with a public-option component might end up being one of the razor-thin votes of the year, where Franken's vote could make a difference," says Larry J. Sabato, a political science professor at the University of Virginia. (Watch TIME's video "Uninsured Again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Will Al Franken Make a Difference in the Senate? | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

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