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Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein ’61 gave his last goodbyes to both his current Ec10 students and the Ec10 program yesterday...
...build Marine One, the President's helicopter. For the first time, the Pentagon has decided not to buy from Connecticut's Sikorsky Aircraft Co., instead choosing an Anglo-Italian chopper that initially will be made in Europe by a consortium of firms in partnership with Maryland's Lockheed Martin. "The Marine One decision was highly symbolic," admits John Douglass, president of the Aerospace Industries Association, a U.S. trade group. "It showed that foreign companies can compete and win on the most sensitive programs...
American contractors like Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Northrop Grumman still share the bulk of U.S. defense spending, of course. But waves of consolidation have narrowed the domestic field to a small--and, critics say, often uncompetitive--number of major players. And even those firms are looking abroad: Boeing, the world's top aerospace firm and the U.S.'s biggest exporter (2004 revenues: $52 billion), outsources jet components to Japan and Italy. "It's not just a clich to say the world is getting smaller," says Mark Ronald, CEO of the U.S. arm of BAE Systems...
...cheap supermarket paperback, “American Prometheus” is an exhaustive 600-page biography of the fascinating J. Robert Oppenheimer ’25, remembered by history as the “father of the atomic bomb.” Journalist Kai Bird and Tufts professor Martin J. Sherwin track the scientist from childhood to death, thoroughly charting his rise and fall through interviews, letters, and transcripts. After following Oppenheimer’s path for a quarter-century, the authors will return tonight to their subject’s alma mater, speaking...
Bobby A. Hodgson ’05 does a capital job both as the God Apollo, and, with more stage-time, as a nameless ‘Old Man’ (a well-characterized interlocutor for the other characters), while the ever-nimble, well-toned, and intense Liam R. Martin ’06 turns in an excellent performance as Aegisthus; Mary E. Birnbaum ’07 does an admirable job filling a pair of different, lesser roles...