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...matter what congress or President Obama does, there is one aspect of the industry that is beyond rescue. The Detroit of the American Dream, the Benevolent Manufacturing State - the big-metal, Big Labor, big-brother, bigger-than-its-britches Detroit - is deader than Studebaker...
Ford: "We are acutely aware that our domestic competitors are, by their own reporting, at risk of running out of cash in a matter of weeks or months. Our industry is an interdependent one. We have 80 percent overlap in supplier networks. Nearly 25 percent of Ford's top dealers also own GM and Chrysler franchises. That is why the collapse of one or both of our domestic competitors would also threaten Ford...
...with the administration that they are necessary the economic situation we are in.FAS dean Michael D. Smith announced one of those unfortunate measures last week when he followed several other major universities in implementing a staff hiring freeze. While this hiring freeze is deplorable in principle, as a practical matter, we are compelled to support it. As far as budget cuts go, this is a fairly benign one—halting growth is far preferable to reversing it, as through layoffs. FAS must make up the deficit somewhere, and the $10 million saved by the freeze constitute one sizeable step...
...Through it all, I reassured myself that at least I didn’t watch High School Musical. It was my last shred of dignity, Jonas be damned.So it was under duress that I was coerced into finally watching HSM. I steeled myself against it. “No matter how many times they sing in unison, do not get sucked in,” I told myself. “They are engineered by Disney. They’re all a little funny-looking. For the love of God, please don’t like this...
...much less alt friend Ben J. Gleeson ’10 typically adds, “We’ve known each other since our freshman seminar.” (He often adds a few more mumbled comments that I just can’t quite make out, no matter how hard I press my ear up to the door.) “Listen, boss. I’ve known you since pre-frosh weekend and I’m saying this as both your friend and as someone who understands Ginsburg: get over this broad. She sounds like...