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...Marchionne's hands-on style has re-energized Chrysler's managers. "He has literally breathed new life into our company," said Ralph Gilles, who heads the company's design office as well as Dodge marketing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amid Tumbling Sales, Chrysler Looks to Future | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

Boston mayor Thomas M. Menino, was reelected to serve an unprecedented fifth consecutive term last night, putting a new flourish on a political legacy that has already led some commentators to jokingly brand him “mayor for life...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Menino Elected for Fifth Term | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer once wrote, “To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.” After my life in the South and my education here at Harvard, I think he has the first part backward...

Author: By Nafees A. Syed | Title: In Defense of the South | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...Where are you from?” asked a Harvard student, to which I replied, “Georgia.” Just plain, unexotic Georgia, one of the 50 states of the same country in which Harvard is a part. Then, for the first time in my life, my home state was confused for a former Communist satellite, and I had to clarify: No, I was referring to the Southern state. For the past four years, this clarification has inevitably been followed by statements such as “Why would your parents immigrate there...

Author: By Nafees A. Syed | Title: In Defense of the South | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...hours outside of Atlanta, a similar experience to taking the train out from Paris or any other cosmopolitan city. I’ve been to a farm once, and that was because my enthusiastic parents wanted to show me what farm animals look like in real life. Yet despite Georgia’s decisive modernity, I am still the brunt of redneck jokes, all the more outlandish because I am not red, or even white, but just plain brown...

Author: By Nafees A. Syed | Title: In Defense of the South | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

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