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Airbus' ability to climb out of the crisis has been severely restricted by its cumbersome and intensely political management structure. The French, German, Spanish and British consortium is backed by billions of dollars in taxpayers' money. But it's a nightmare of corporate governance because management and blue-collar jobs have traditionally been divvied up among its various state and private owners. Horse trading trumps efficiency, so many operations are needlessly duplicated. The wiring muddles behind nearly $3 billion in cost overruns are a classic example: plants in Toulouse and Hamburg wired different parts of the A380 in different ways...
DEFINITION: From the Spanish desmigratizar: to take immigration out of the talks between the U.S. and Mexico...
...fratricidal Spanish Civil War, waged from 1936 to 1939, was a time of tension and high drama. And through April 24, the Harvard Film Archive is allowing audiences to experience the era’s tragedy and pathos in its series “Franco, Fascists, and Freedom Fighters: The Spanish Civil War on Film.” The film series marks the 71st anniversary of the conflict. Comprised of factual and fictional films, it includes dramatic renderings of the civil war, such as “Pan’s Labyrinth” director Guillermo del Toro?...
...Hanna E. Melnick ’07, a Social Studies concentrator, Spanish 60 offered a welcome break from the monotony of reading Durkheim in Social Studies 10. “Working in the community actually gave me idea of what it is like to be a Latino immigrant in the U.S.” she says. “You cannot learn about people whose lives are not like yours without interactivaccination against ng with them...
Facebook is ubiquitous, but perhaps not universal. Three Harvard students have developed a new social networking site, Vostu.com, that they say will fill a void left by online communities in which English is the lingua franca. The Spanish-language interface, publicly launched at the end of February, is intended to help connect the Latin American community, according to founders Joshua Kushner ’08, Daniel E. Kafie ’05, and Harvard Business School student Mario T. Schlosser. Even though membership is currently by invitation only, Vostu.com has accrued over 600 members—mostly from Argentina, Peru...