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...Remarkably, Harvard has not gotten around to renovating Widener, though it has overhauled almost every other building in the Yard. The steel that holds it together is still peppered with rivets. The lights have actual bulbs, not the fluorescent tubes we called "death-rays" in high school. And of course, Widener has everything you could ever need for writing a paper--the books reek (literally) of knowledge (figuratively...
Remarkably, Harvard has not gotten around to renovating Widener, though it has overhauled almost every other building in the Yard. The steel that holds it together is still peppered with rivets. The lights have actual bulbs, not the fluorescent tubes we called "death-rays" in high school. And of course, Widener has everything you could ever need for writing a paper--the books reek (literally) of knowledge (figuratively...
...result, competition among suppliers is kicking into overdrive. In Europe, the myriad small companies that have traditionally fed the industry are clumping together in consortiums or getting bought by bigger companies. Dynamit Nobel is part of Germany's Metallgesellschaft. Budd Automotive, which introduced the all-steel body in 1914, is now part of Thyssen Budd Automotive, which will soon be folded into emerging industrial conglomerate Thyssen Krupp AG. Carmakers themselves are also creating new players. Both Ford and GM have turned their component divisions into distinct profit centers with fancy names like Visteon and Delphi, and Renault and Fiat recently...
...press conference. And if the Establishment media play these down, there will still be the Matt Drudges, Howard Sterns and Flynts to play them up. So whether or not an old acquaintance with sex and drugs should be forgotten by voters, it will take a candidate with nerves of steel to withstand the vetting process...
...project to project with an air of confidence and disarming maturity, Max truly defies description--he's the epitome of the teenager who stands out from the crowd and is darn proud to do so. The other great character is Herman Blume (Bill Murray), a burnt-out, self-loathing steel tycoon, who has both succeeded tremendously and failed miserably at life. Hiding behind his fancy suits and well-trimmed mustache, Blume also defies easy categorization, acting like an incorrigible child as often as he acts like a respectable businessman...