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...further cement Turkey's relationship with the West, to combat the threat of terrorism. So while he's traveling through Europe this week, President George W. Bush might want to take a second look at the E.U.'s success. Countries around the world are drawing inspiration from the European model and nurturing their own neighborhood clubs, from asean and Mercosur to the African Union and the Arab League. This regional domino effect is redefining the meaning of power. As this process unfolds, I believe the 21st century will come to be seen as the "new European century." Not because...
...Consider Renault, the 106-year-old French automaker that a decade ago was heavily indebted and still majority owned by the state. It has moved to become more international, and now sells more autos outside Europe than it does in France. Its latest model - the ?5,000 Logan, built in low-cost Romania - is aimed at the aspiring middle classes across the globe. Renault recently announced its earnings for 2004: record net income, operating profits up 72% and profit margins at almost 6% of sales - more than double Ford...
DIED. SAMUEL ALDERSON, 90, inventor who created the first automobile crash test dummy, an articulated model of an adult male used to measure car safety; in Los Angeles. After developing dummies to test parachutes and jet ejection seats, he refined his work to suit the needs of the increasingly safety-conscious auto industry, introducing the first dummy specifically for cars, called...
...these and many other matters. Faculty accustomed to operating at what may be America’s most decentralized research university predictably resent any loss of control to the central administration, but the idiosyncracies of the status quo ante at Harvard should not be assumed to be a model of effective university governance...
...significantly less plausible than Bruno Ganz in the Academy Award-nominated Downfall (or even the toga-clad Heinz Schubert in the 1978 film Our Hitler), he delivers a spluttering invective against the “low races,” and proceeds to bestow upon Bose a toy model of the boat that will carry the latter around Africa “like Vasco da Gama”—and furnish ample opportunity, in turn, to bond with the spice-starved German crew over...