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When Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg jets into Washington this Sunday he plans on asking some tough questions. Germany's new Economy Minister is due to meet U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and bosses at embattled American carmaker General Motors. Opel, a Germany-based division of GM, is fast running out of cash and GM and Opel bosses recently went cap in hand to Berlin to ask for $4.25 billion in state aid. In return, GM say they will restructure Opel by cutting costs and loosening the company's ties with the parent company in Detroit. Opel would become an autonomous...
...Thacher School in Ojai, Calif., for example, squeezed in an hour per week of online ACT prep this fall - along with supplementary phone calls to an Academic Approach tutor - in between football practice and studying for his four Advanced Placement courses. "I don't really have time to meet for long periods of time with someone," he says. "If I had a free period, I could just set it up right then, within five minutes...
...last few years now. I saw Madonna playing the guitar and I was like, "I want to do that!" I mean, if she can do it, I can do it, right? But it's really hard. So I came up with the idea of collaborating. But every time I meet with somebody to write a song, they give me a music lesson. Basically, I have some of the best musicians in the world teaching...
Northwest was built as a combination of fully finished spaces and “shell” spaces, or rooms that can be adapted to meet the needs of specific faculty members, said Linda Snyder, associate executive dean of physical resources and planning. But she emphasized that spaces in Northwest allocated for biology professors will be completely finished and ready for use before laboratory staff and faculty move...
...American side thought the Japanese negotiators were lying, and they didn't keep their promises. I spent about half the negotiation time convincing them that I would keep my promises. The same situation applies in our relations with China. Every time an official from China visits Japan and meets with a Japanese official, they always take up the issue of history. But they do not take up the issue of history when they meet me. I say a lot of things that might in fact sound very tough on their ears...