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Harvard owns at least one other riverfront property in Allston—the land currently occupied by the Genzyme plant just south of Western Avenue. But Genzyme has a long-term lease on that site until...
...formal party ties. Union membership is also dwindling. IG Metall, the metalworkers' union, has lost around 25% of its members in the past decade. In Duisburg, the last big test came in 1987, when steelmaker Krupp (which has since merged with former rival Thyssen) decided to shut down its plant in the Rheinhausen section of the city. For almost six months, steelworkers - joined by local students, miners, shopkeepers and police officers - demonstrated to save the plant. The workers lost and Krupp sold the plant to China...
...seemed wobbly on national security issues—particularly Iraq. Rather than choose a) the confident anti-war argument that acting in Iraq would divert resources from America’s real enemies, or b) the confident pro-war argument that acting in Iraq would remove a threat and plant democracy in the world’s most dangerous neighborhood, we liberals appeared to choose c) the squeamish hope that post-Saddam Iraq would collapse, and Bush would get embarrassed...
...also figured out how to play American-style politics: in contrast to Boeing, whose most vociferous political proponents are Democrats in Washington State eager to protect the company's Seattle-area jobs, EADS is building a base in the Republican-dominated South. Two weeks ago, it opened another plant in Alabama, a Republican state, and has hired a former top aide to Mississippi Republican Senator Trent Lott as an executive...
...Robert Plant could have spent Feb. 12 soaking up a whole lotta love. It was the eve of the Grammy Awards and, 25 years after his legendary hard-rock band split up, Led Zeppelin was at last being honored with a statuette for lifetime achievement. Plant's surviving bandmates - guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist?keyboardist John Paul Jones - turned up crisply suited at the awards ceremony in Los Angeles. But former frontman Plant didn't show; he was 9,000 km away, getting ready for a tsunami benefit gig in Bristol, England. He sent along a video greeting instead...