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Automakers are scrambling for more small and fuel-efficient cars and hybrids as sales of once popular trucks and sport utility vehicles evaporate under the weight of rising fuel prices. "This was a watershed month," says Jim Farley, Ford Motor Co.'s group executive for marketing and sales, following news that the company suffered another huge drop in trucks sales in May. Trucks and sport utility vehicles accounted for 47% of Ford's sales as recently as February but only 34% in May, as consumers opted for compact and subcompact passenger cars. General Motors is adding a third shift...
...14th place after day one to shoot a 70 and tie for first place on Yale’s notoriously tricky course. Harvard won the tournament by three shots over Skidmore, and host Yale nestled into a disappointing seventh place. The victory was the first for Crimson coach Jim Burke and certainly the capstone of an otherwise less-than-stellar season. “I thought down the stretch we played tremendously well—even par on the last three holes, and it probably won us the tournament,” sophomore Greg Shuman said. “When...
...101st Airborne were escorting nine black students into the all-white Little Rock Central High School on Sept. 25, 1957, media worldwide—including The Harvard Crimson—were documenting the beginning of southern school integration. But even as the world was watching intently as Jim Crow was being dismantled, issues of race remained far-removed from the lives of average Harvard students...
...McCain dismissively referred to Barack Obama as a "young man," attacking his inexperience. Not McCain's best issues, so by not losing, he wins. Both McCain and Obama are taking seriously the task of selecting a running mate, launching confidential inquiries headed by old Washington hands A.B. Culvahouse and Jim Johnson, respectively. McCain hosted three prospects (former rival Mitt Romney, Florida governor Charlie Crist and Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal) at his ranch and avoided unseemly leaks or accusations of pandering. Obama faces pressure to choose opponent Hillary Clinton, a tangle he'd rather avoid. Obama paused his nomination battle with...
...Servicemen's Readjustment Act (the policy's official name) offered a college scholarship to all those who had served in uniform, whether or not they had fought on the front lines. In the decades since, benefits have fallen far behind the cost of university tuitions, prompting Senators Jim Webb and Chuck Hagel to draft a new GI Bill that would offer soldiers full tuition at any state school...