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...Germany into an economic straitjacket. BMW went through its own rough patch in the 1990s after the disastrous acquisition of Britain's Rover Group, but its fortunes have changed markedly since it ditched Rover in 2000. Production has increased steadily, and profits are buoyant. Pretax earnings last year rose 25%, to $5.5 billion, despite the soaring cost of raw materials and the strong euro. It has easily outpaced its historic rival, Mercedes (part of DaimlerChrysler), to become the leading premium-car brand. BMW is pushing a worldwide expansion. This spring it opened an assembly plant in India, and the company...
...Dolley's acolytes, Rose Greenhow, turned her dining room (and perhaps her bedroom) into a venue for sources for a Confederate spy ring. A well-liked widow known for entertaining both sides in the tense years before the Civil War, Greenhow understood the ways of Washington. She advised a friend seeking a favor that Congressmen were "honorable men who could not be bribed, but they discern much more clearly the justice of a case, when they have dined and supped well in pleasant company." When the war started, the Union politicians who continued to sup with Greenhow let slip intelligence...
...look beyond the lawn mower and there are signs of abundance that even the most jaded urbanite can decipher. The garden hoses hang limply on the wall, the rose bushes don't need constant coddling, the basil plant is big as a bush, and the potted fern is threatening to block the path to the front door. Everything is green, not gold this summer, except for the bag of plump, ripe tomatoes delivered by a neighor. Tomato vines love the rain. "It may well be a tomato year - a happy thought," writes Austin organic farmer Carol Ann Sayles from Boggy...
...Association (CAN), which aims to place a nurse in each of the 3,000 theaters across the country where Sicko is shown in a campaign called "Scrubs for Sicko." The film is "not just an indictment of an indefensible healthcare industry in the U.S.," says CAN's executive director Rose Ann DeMoro. "It's a rejoinder for those who think we can fix the soulless monster by tinkering with an unconscionable system that puts us further in thrall to those who created the crisis...
...move many saw as punishment for her very active role in a strike of MoMA staff members 18 months earlier. (For a fuller discussion of this story, see here.) Mary's layoff, and the closing of the Still Archive, became a cause celebre, and many film professionals rose to her defense; but the first one was Roger, who wrote an outraged letter to the New York Times the day after she was laid off. It was both a valued act of friendship and the declaration of a union man that the workers of the world had to stick together...