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...With Germany's federal election on Sept. 27 looming, GM's decision provides a huge boost for Merkel, whose conservative Christian Democrats are already well ahead in the opinion polls. Opel employs 25,000 workers in Germany - around half of GM Europe's total workforce. German unions threatened mass demonstrations if GM decided to keep Opel, fearing that option would lead to thousands of job losses in Germany. With the green light for Magna, Merkel has received an important psychological boost and can now tell voters on the campaign trail that she managed to save German jobs...
...Martínez called “Vast Hell”; a beach community scours the dunes for the bodies of an adulterous couple supposedly murdered by a jealous couple. When body parts discovered in a sequestered part of the dune are revealed to be the traces of a mass grave authored by the region’s secret police, the townspeople quickly and mechanically rebury the remains. “The Skating Rink,” with its project still so modest, can only be that reburial.—Staff writer Ryan J. Meehan can be reached...
...walked down Mt. Auburn Street one afternoon, en route to his job at Mass. General, but detoured into STA Travel on a whim, rattling off a list of countries to a travel agent, and asking how much it would cost to get him to each...
...campaign was further delayed as University President Drew G. Faust entered Mass. Hall with several school leadership positions vacant, which University officials said complicated an immediate start to campaign planning, as they wanted top administrators in place to provide input on long-term strategic initiatives...
...Yale, recruited as part of Yale’s aggressive expansion into cutting-edge fields. Former Harvard Medical School Professor David A. Hafler was appointed chair of Yale’s neurology department, and Thomas J. Lynch, Jr.—former chief of hematology and oncology at the Mass. General Cancer Center—has become director of the Yale Cancer Center. While departments will be asked to cut non-salary spending by 5 percent—on top of a 7.5 percent reduction announced in February—salary-related budget allocations will not be subject to further...