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...make their selection. An electric car, if priced well, might seem like a smart choice, especially as the cost of gas rises again. "The Chinese customer is just getting off a bike, so they're not worried about not being able to drive six hours without a recharge," says Philip Gott, a director for automotive consulting at research firm IHS Global Insight. "China has the chance to work out the kinks in its own backyard...
...Though Harvard will not be offering any official programming during the January break, the Office of International Programs, Office of Career Services, Office of the Arts, Center for Public Interest Careers, and Philip Brooks House Association will be available to assist those not allowed to stay on campus with finding internships, travel abroad opportunities, or other activities for the break...
...same time, while the state may not be killing death row inmates, human rights groups say that the number of extrajudicial killings by police has skyrocketed. In February, United Nations envoy Philip Alston concluded that there is a "systematic, widespread and carefully planned strategy" of executions by police, almost certainly conducted with the consent of their top brass. He called for the resignation of the chief of police and Kenya's attorney general. In response, Kenya denied the allegations and demanded Alston's removal from his U.N. envoy post. (Read: "Kenya's Unfinished Reckoning...
...here is that Pynchon finally makes one of those characters a licensed gumshoe, albeit one with an incongruous hippie backstory. "Doc" Sportello is an ambling longhair with links to the surfer world and an appetite for controlled substances that would give Hunter S. Thompson pause. Think George Carlin as Philip Marlowe and you're getting there...
...Newark had its glory days as a multicultural melting pot that produced luminaries like novelist Philip Roth and Supreme Court Justice William Brennan. It was a place that, with its strategic location in the Northeast urban corridor and assets like a thriving port, had the potential of Los Angeles. But since the '67 riots and the epic flight that followed, Newark (pop. 280,000) has been searching for its elusive renaissance. Booker, a black kid from the lily-white suburbs of northern New Jersey, has promised to deliver it and prove that an educated, technocratic outsider can rewrite the rules...