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...Touran multi-purpose vehicle (MPV) as signs that VW is broadening its mix, enabling it to profit in hot segments such as SUVs and MPVs - a trend it was slow to pick up on - and hedge against downturns in other segments. Continuing down the road paved by his predecessor, Pischetsrieder plans to launch dozens of new models over the next two years, including a new Microbus, smaller SUVs and crossover vehicles and, maybe, a sexy convertible, the Concept R, which he unveiled at the Frankfurt Auto Show in September. VW's new Golf, rolling into European dealerships now amid positive...
...WELBURN Design Driver Now steering styling at General Motors is Welburn, 52, who was promoted in October to the top design job. Welburn is charged with advancing the work of his predecessor, Wayne Cherry, who rescued GM from the bland boxes it produced in the '80s and early '90s. Welburn recently headed design of GM trucks and SUVs, overseeing the look of the hot Cadillac Escalade and Hummer H2, among other vehicles. Welburn's passion is muscle cars: he created an Oldsmobile that sustained 257 m.p.h.--a world record...
...another of a long series of changes to the College bureaucracy, a new secretary of the Administrative Board will start work in University Hall today as his predecessor moves upstairs to become a Faculty administrator...
Recalling the torture inflicted on Bush's predecessor by a squad of special prosecutors, congressional Democrats demanded that a special counsel be appointed in this case. By Wednesday some had christened the scandal Intimigate and were trying to link it to every political issue in sight. New York Democratic Senator Charles Schumer, who had been among the first to call for an investigation back in July, announced that he would offer a nonbinding amendment to be attached to the Administration's bill for the $87 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan, calling for the naming of a special prosecutor...
There's a neat symmetry to Putin's Chechenization scheme. The Chechen war, waged in 1994 by Putin's predecessor Boris Yeltsin, was supposed to be a brief punitive action against a small, unruly republic. But it ended in August 1996 with at least 80,000 Chechens dead, Russia humiliated and Chechnya independent in all but name. The experience was as scarring for Russia as Vietnam was for the U.S. In late 1999, after a series of apartment-block bombings in Moscow that the Kremlin blamed on Chechen terrorists, Putin, then Prime Minister, ordered the reinvasion of Chechnya, making...