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...other words, for all the number-crunching and all the brute financial haircuts involved in these bankruptcies, at heart they are animated by the audacity of hope. The hope that Fiat's Sergio Marchionne can translate his turnaround mojo into a language Chrysler can understand. The hope that, having poured at least $1 billion into the innovative but commercially suspect Chevy Volt plug-in, GM can pivot into less costly hybrid and high-efficiency diesel technologies. (Perversely, the Administration might hope for $4-a-gallon gasoline to aid that quest...
...This one, which might seem a mixture of wartime films from the U.S. and France (it does absorb some of the aura of François Truffaut's 1980 The Last Metro), is really, as Tarantino has said, "a spaghetti Western but with World War II iconography." That means Sergio Leone's Fistful trilogy with Clint Eastwood and Leone's all-time top Western homage Once Upon a Time in the West. Tarantino sprinkles the sound track of Basterds with eight pieces by longtime Leone composer Ennio Morricone and begins with a title card telling us that the story...
...Sergio Minerbi, a former Israeli ambassador and scholar on Israeli-Vactian affairs, was given shelter from the Nazis in an Italian Catholic Boys School during the war. But Minerbi, who has met Benedict several times when he was still a cardinal, says the Pope wants to "Christianize the Holocaust." Minerbi concludes: "There's a long way to go before the Vatican and the Jews establish friendly relations." (See pictures of Hitler's rise to power...
...acronym for Fabrica Italiana Automobili Torino (Italian Car Factory of Turin), many older Americans joke that it really stands for Fix It Again Tony. Plagued by chronic breakdowns, Fiat left the American market in 1983 with it's reputation badly tarnished. But Fiat underwent its own transformation after Sergio Marchionne became CEO of the automaker in 2004 and ushered in new talent and technology. Though facing its own financial troubles, the Italian automaker has since been impressing consumers with its eye-catching exterior designs, steady improvement in quality and updated motors...
...academic advising—drop in or by appointment department advising, House advisers, department-funded events which promote interaction with faculty, and peer concentration counselors. Beaver said the department is looking to add more House-based outreach by hosting faculty lunches and historical movies in the houses.History concentrator Sergio Prado ’09, said that he has been satisfied with the advising in the department.“The professors and the people who deal with the administration definitely have a lot of concern for the students,” he said.—Staff writer Victor...