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...Canada contributed $9.5 billion to the rescue of GM's operations north of the 49th parallel - a figure that works out to an unprecedented $2.1 million for each of 4,400 assembly jobs it hopes to save - while Mexico has sailed free? The short answer is that GM Mexico doesn't need a bailout because it's comfortably in the black. "If you have a profitable division at a time when the rest of your business is having a hard time, do you talk about it?" says analyst Pascual Francisco at IHS Global Insight in Lexington, Mass., referring...
...bill's language, the first outlines of the bill being drafted by the three key committee chairmen in the House - Energy and Commerce's Henry Waxman, Ways and Means' Charles Rangel and Education and Labor's George Miller - showed that while the two chambers are going along generally parallel tracks, it may well be the House that is taking the more cautious approach, at least for the moment. (You can read it here.) There are, of course, still a lot of details that have yet to be filled in, and much could change. But here are a couple...
...finally, have museums of their own in their native country, dedicated to their respective contributions to the evolution of 20th century art. The museums trace the bold innovations and ideas that show up in the artists' work while also revealing the contrasting outlooks the two men held in their parallel lives...
...with absurd precision. Did we really wait four years to see the “Literature and Arts” requirement renamed “Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding?” “Moral Reasoning,” renamed “Ethical Reasoning?”PARALLEL PATHS, DIVERGENT MISSIONSDespite their similarities, these parallel programs emerged from very different moments in history. The Core, spearheaded by then-Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, grew out conflicting desires. The Faculty tried simultaneously to reclaim the university’s authority over what a college education should mean after...
...remarry. According to Yaffe, Vaizey told her that she “never met anyone quite like John.” After working for the Financial Times, Vaizey moved on to the Sunday Times in 1974. Meanwhile, she worked in what she called “a parallel career,” serving on the Arts Council of England and for other arts organizations. She also wrote several art books including “Great Women Collectors,” which she co-authored with Charlotte Gere. The Queen of England honored Vaizey by naming her a Commander...