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...longer-term worry is that the Great Recession seems to have put a crimp in Americans' long-standing love affair with the automobile. R. L. Polk & Co., of Southfield, Mich., reported this week that the number of cars and light trucks scrapped in the 15 months from July 1, 2008, to Sept. 30, 2009, "substantially outnumbered" new vehicle registrations. Polk's tally for the 15-month period shows that 14.8 million vehicles were scrapped, while registrations of new vehicles totaled 13.6 million. That suggests that families may be downsizing from three cars to two or even fewer and escaping...
...David L. Finkel will receive the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize—named for two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner J. Anthony Lukas ’55—for “The Good Soliders,” a book on a battalion of infantry soldiers in the Iraq war, at a ceremony at the Nieman Foundation...
...Staff writer Elyssa A. L. Spitzer can be reached at spitzer@fas.harvard.edu...
...Ladders to Fire” is Escobedo’s second solo exhibition and her first off-campus showing since coming to Harvard. Gallery intern and curator Emily X. L. Xie ’12 arranged the exhibition, selecting a wide variety of Escobedo’s pieces. Her selections include large oil paintings and acrylics, some of which were previously displayed at the artist’s show last semester in the SOCH Penthouse. Additionally, Xie featured Escobedo’s intricately detailed comics, which are being exhibited for the first time...
Colin J. Motley ’10 is an economics concentrator in Winthrop House. Caleb L. Weatherl ’10, a Crimson editorial writer, is an economics concentrator in Currier House. They are both former presidents of the Harvard Republican Club...