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...rival bid from Fiat was just an attempt, as one union official put it, to "pinch German engineering." The unions regard Magna as an innovative company that put forward the best plan to secure the long-term future of Opel. At the carmaker's headquarters in the town of Rüsselsheim near Frankfurt, workers were hugging friends and colleagues outside the factory on Saturday when news of the deal broke. Many were surprised the German government finally stepped in to save the traditional carmaker Opel in the nick of time, just before its parent company, the U.S. car giant...
...science center,” Government professor Jorge I. Dominguez recalled. Debates over the new Gen Ed program, by contrast, repeatedly lacked the quorum necessary to take votes and, when they provoked emotion at all it was because they were, in former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68’s words, informed by a “turf battle mentality” whereby departments vied for representation in the curriculum. Despite Gen Ed’s lackluster beginnings, however, it at least ditches the Core’s ideas about the universal importance...
...woman), just for one day. 20. Take it to the max not because you have to, but because Vin Diesel tells you to. Concurrently, meet Vin Diesel. —H. Max Huber ’09, Jake D. Segal ’09, Andrew R. Granoff ’09, and Clem D. Wright ’09 contributed to the reporting of this story while watching Stepbrothers in my room at 2:00 a.m. College...
...days leading up to this nomination, there were several media reports suggesting that Judge Sotomayor should not be considered for this position simply because she has Type 1 diabetes," said Dr. R. Paul Robertson, president of the American Diabetes Association, in a statement following Sotomayor's nomination. "The advancements in the management of Type 1 diabetes have been just amazing over the last two decades, and the ability of people to manage their diabetes successfully has been proven. People with diabetes can function and live a long and healthy life...
...White House plans to take the high road in selling Sotomayor to the public. They will point to her résumé, her previous Senate confirmation and her impeccable credentials to make a case for her. Obama's aides are so confident in the political pluses of this pick that some of them would welcome attempts by fringe conservatives to come after her. A few would even like liberals to attack her as insufficiently committed to their causes...