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...affluent, even though their numbers are dwindling. The model competes with the large sedans from BMW, Mercedes, and Lexus. Hyundai seems to have dropped a nice vehicle into each of the major slots in the U.S. car market. It sells a nifty entry-level coupe and has a mammoth minivan called the Entourage. It markets SUVs and small sedans. They don't have any more or less cheap plastic trim in their interiors than a Honda. They are simply serviceable cars and trucks that probably won't break down...
...This was a major lapse of security," cricket legend turned politician Imran Khan tells TIME. "Having guaranteed the Sri Lankan team security, they failed to provide them even with the type of security given to a government minister. This could have been a mammoth tragedy. If the grenades hit them inside the bus, it could have blown up the whole team. And astonishingly, how were they allowed to get away...
...freshman is lucky enough to get a lot of action in his first year at college—but on the Harvard men’s basketball team, the novices are seeing a lot of playing time. Six first-years, who represent half of the team, inherited the mammoth task of supporting a squad plagued by injury. This weekend, there are only eight healthy players on the roster—not an unusual circumstance for the Crimson this season—and Harvard continues to juggle around the health of the upperclassmen. “We knew coming into...
...mammoth demonstrations were designed to send a warning of discontentment to the conservative government of President Nicolas Sarkozy. Workers in France are angry about what they see as insufficient government efforts to protect both public and private sector jobs. People are also upset that union and employee concerns over stagnating salaries and slumping purchasing power were ignored when the government drew up its $34 billion economic stimulus package. Many remain concerned over the lack of any real effort to impose tighter regulations on banks and finance groups in France and abroad, despite Sarkozy's rousing call last year to "moralize...
...principles: that the provisions be "timely, temporary and targeted." "If we heap too much on top of the package, it will then take us deeply into debt," she warned in a speech on the House floor on Jan. 29, 2008. But now, as Congress gears up to craft a mammoth stimulus package that will dwarf last year's $170 billion bill, those requirements don't seem to be all that binding. (See a bailout report card...