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...January) and the Embraer ERJ190 (expected next year), cost each firm nearly $1 billion to develop but might face competition from Boeing's and Airbus' smallest models. Bombardier and Embraer are also beefing up international operations, especially in jet-hungry China. Embraer last year launched a $25 million joint venture to build 50-seaters in China for that market. Bombardier is in negotiations with other Chinese partners to build 70- and 90-seat jets. The fates of the regional-jet makers and the airlines are intertwined as never before. Since the fall of 2001, Bombardier Aerospace has laid off nearly...
...that it is a firm supporter of diversity, and in the College’s student handbook it is made clear that “any form of discrimination...is contrary to the principles and policies of Harvard University.” I was thus very surprised when the joint student-faculty Committee on College Life (CCL) voted 8-4 to abandon these principles and allow discrimination on our campus by giving the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship (HRCF) the right to remain an accredited student group...
Perhaps Illingworth, a member of the CCL and a priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts who has served in parishes in Maine and Boston, was joking when he said that. According to internal CCL emails I’ve obtained, it seems the changes were part of a joint proposal on the part of Illingworth and recently ousted Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 to approve a newly revised HRCF charter that did not remove the faith requirement for HRCF’s officers and that therefore allowed them to continue to discriminate. This...
...officers and soldiers referred to training events back at Fort Campbell or at the military's training centers to build mental images of the tasks ahead. Major Hart, the 1st Brigade Air Force Liaison, said, "I had to constantly remind myself that this was not another JRTC (Joint Readiness Training Center) rotation. Everything we encountered in JRTC we are encountering here. It is almost uncanny how everything we trained for is happening...
Desperate Shi'ite and Kurdish leaders begged the U.S. military for help. But Colin Powell, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, wanted U.S. troops safely home, not mired in what might become a messy civil war. Secretary of State James Baker feared the "Lebanonization of Iraq." His nightmare: Iraqi Shi'ites, aligned with Iran's fundamentalist Shi'ites, would carve out the south; Sunni Muslims would hold the center; and Kurds, who long craved an independent state, would capture the north, upsetting Turkey, which feared revolt from its own Kurdish population...