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Negotiations between GM and Magna - based in Aurora, Ont., it's one of the world's biggest auto-parts suppliers, with annual revenue of $23.7 billion - have hit one roadblock after another. A key sticking point is disagreement over Magna's right to use GM's technology and engineering, particularly in Russia and Eastern Europe, where the parts company has plans for aggressive expansion. (See the most exciting cars...
Some analysts argue Magna is making a big mistake if it acquires Ruesselsheim-based Opel and its European subsidiaries, which employ 50,000 workers, most of them in Germany. "A third of the parts companies out there are in trouble right now," says Toronto analyst Dennis DesRosiers of DesRosiers Automotive Consultants. "This is an unprecedented opportunity for Magna to build its core business...
...late for University of Alabama freshman Andrew Morris - he's already been infected. "It's not too bad," he says, stopping to adjust his facemask as he loads groceries into his car. "But I know somebody else who's probably getting it right now. A girl touched me earlier...
...else in Washington who would pay the price. A CIA officer who left the agency in 2004 wrote to me this week: "I knew the Agency crazies and their contractors would eventually pay legally or politically for torture. Many folks were talking about it. But management did nothing. The right wing nuts did not make us proud, and hid behind Cheney authorities to conduct crimes which added nothing and probably were counter-productive sadism, period." (See pictures of do-it-yourself waterboarding...
...suspect the Los Angeles Times has it right when it reported Thursday the newly appointed prosecutor will be focusing on the alleged abuses of contractors rather than staff CIA officers. At the same time it would of course be a mistake to lay responsibility for the Bush Administration's torture policies solely at the doorstep of contractors. The Bush Administration is more culpable than anyone at the CIA or in corporate America. Still, the point remains that it was political expediency - the White House's asking the CIA to do something it couldn't do - that has damaged CIA morale...