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...money,” he said. “It’s not a big building, but doing major renovations in the middle of Harvard Square gets extremely expensive. Just for example, there’s no place on the site where you can put a truck...
Commander Mamabaidullah switches off the ignition and alights from his pickup truck onto the desert plain surrounding Spin Boldak, a chaotic Afghan town that borders Pakistan. Followed by four of his Kalashnikov-toting men, he walks briskly toward a graveyard where scores of bodies lie buried beneath mounds of dirt and clay. Mamabaidullah, who is responsible for guarding this stretch of frontier between Afghanistan and Pakistan, stops at the row closest to the border. With evident pride, he explains that they contain the corpses of Taliban militiamen killed by Afghan soldiers during a battle last month. These Taliban, Mamabaidullah says...
...where they could be found. "If we had sincere and honest cooperation from Pakistan," charges the security official in Kabul, "there'd be no Taliban threat in Afghanistan." After the battle near Spin Boldak, Mamabaidullah made the point less delicately by piling more than 20 bodies onto a dump truck, driving to the border and depositing them on Pakistani soil...
...Love Truck Volkswagen's assembly plant in Puebla, Mexico, is cranking out 3,000 special-edition old-style Beetles. But when the last one comes off the factory floor on July 30, the Bug's amazing 70-year era will officially end. Chief executive Bernd Pischetsrieder, however, has been too busy trying to engineer the €90 billion company's next era to get choked up over the passing of this...
...German competitors, BMW and DaimlerChrysler, have waged in the U.S., dismissing what he calls "incentives of mass destruction." That has cost him U.S. market share, but he says it's preserving profit. But now the company best known for the tiny "people's car" is thinking about trucks - big ones. And buses. And diesel engines. Industrial customers want manufacturers to deliver entire, diverse fleets. So Pischetsrieder has been talking to shareholders of Munich truckmaker MAN and Sweden's Scania, in which VW already has a stake, about creating Europe's third-largest truckmaker (behind DaimlerChrysler and Volvo). "There are question...